What are the base pair rules for DNA?
What is Adenine - Thymine & Guanine - Cytosine
What are the base pairing rules for RNA?
What is Adenine - Uracil, Guanine - Cytosine, Thymine - Adenine
The acronym RNA stands for what?
Ribosenucleic Acid
A codon is composed of how many base pairs?
What is 3?
What does the acronym DNA stand for
Deoxyribosenucleic acid
Where does transcription take place?
Where is inside the nucleus?
The process to describe DNA turning into RNA and then a protein is known as
What is the Central Dogma?
Which RNA molecule is responsible for bringing amino acids into the ribosome?
What is tRNA?
What are the three groups that form a nucleotide?
What is a phosphate, sugar and nitrogen base
True or false mRNA is double stranded
False!
Name the bonds that hold together DNA's sugar/phosphate backbone
What is Covalent/Phosphodiester bonds?
Where does translation take place?
What is the ribosome?
What are the bonds that hold nitrogen bases together in DNA
What is Hydrogen Bonds
What enzyme is responsible for transcription?
What is RNA Polymerase?
A section of DNA that codes for a specific protein is known as a what?
What is a gene?
What is the start/met codon?
What is AUG?
Name the 4 enzymes responsible for DNA synthesis (replication)
What is Topoisomerase, Helicase, Primase & DNA Polymerase
What are the three kinds of RNA molecules?
What is mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA?
Who were the three scientists responsible for discovering DNA?
Who is Watson, Crick & Rosalind
Translate this mRNA sequence into an amino acid sequence
CCCAUGGUAUUAUAAG
What is Met- Val - Leu - Stop
Name 2 reasons for adding loading dye into the DNA samples
1. To visualize the DNA once its ran
2. To hold the DNA down into the wells