Translation of RNA to protein happens here
What is a Ribosome?
A change in the genetic material in a cell
What is a a mutation?
These are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The sequence of nucleotide bases on mRNA that would complement the following bases on DNA: A T T C G C A G T
What is U A A G C G U C A
DNA is copied into a strand of RNA during this step of protein synthesis.
What is Transcription?
The enzyme required to make RNA from DNA.
What is RNA polymerase?
The bonds that link nitrogen bases together that can be easily un-linked.
What are hydrogen bonds?
Two things that happen in the nucleus involving DNA
What are DNA Replication and Transcription?
Anticodons and amino acids are found on this molecule.
What is transfer RNA?
There are __ amino acids and __ different codon combinations to code for those amino acids.
What is an 20 and 64?
These special types of proteins help to unzip DNA and match up complementary nucleotide bases during DNA replication and protein synthesis.
What are enzymes?
Groups of three bases on a mRNA molecule
What is a codon?
The sequence of DNA polymerase reads in this direction and synthesizes in a second direction. Name the directions.
What is reads 3' to 5' and synthesizes 5' to 3'?
The transfer of amino acids to the ribosome using anti-codon occurs using this molecule.
What is tRNA?
This is the anticodon for CAG
What is GUC?
This strand is a continuously replicated strand in DNA synthesis.
What is the leading strand?
The name for long chains of amino acids that form during protein synthesis.
What are polypeptides?