What base does Thymine pair with in DNA transcription?
Adenine
100
What base does Guanine pair with in DNA translation?
Cytosine
100
What does this mean?
% ADENINE = % THYMINE
There is the same amount of adenine as Thymine
100
What is the first step in gene expression?
Transcription
100
If DNA is found in the nucleus, then where is the nucleus found?
In a cell
200
The shape of DNA is described as a…..?
Double Helix or Twisted Ladder
200
If you string amino acids together, what do you get?
proteins
200
What are the building blocks of life?
Proteins
200
Do we translate or transcribe RNA?
Transcribe
300
The instructions for our traits are called what?
DNA
300
What does DNA stand far?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
300
When the bases get together, they make what?
amino acids
300
DNA is too large to leave the nucleus, so it uses a strand of RNA to make a __________ of the DNA.
Template
300
Do we translate or transcribe DNA?
Translate
400
What base does Adenine pair with in RNA?
Thymine
400
In what part of a cell do we find the instructions for our traits?
Nucleus
400
Finish this sentence. DNA is a language - it speaks in words___________ letters long (A T G).
Three
400
Both RNA and DNA are which kind of acids?
Nucleic
400
It sends the RNA out to the RIBOSOMES for translation into a protein.
DNA
500
The steps of the DNA ladder are made up of pairs of molecules called……?
Nitrogen Bases
500
Name the four nitrogen bases.
Adenine, Cytosine, Thymine, and Guanine
500
Explain the rules of base pairing.
DNA
A with T: adenine (A) always pairs with the thymine (T)
C with G: cytosine (C) always pairs with the guanine (G)
RNA
A with U adenine (A) always pairs with the Uracil (U)
500
to specify, or, to tell us, the order of amino acids in proteins.
Translate
500
If CYTOSINE pairs with GUANINE and ADENINE now pairs with URACIL, what will the new strand of RNA look like?
C G A T C