The Backbone of DNA is made of this.
What is phosphate & sugar (deoxyribose)
The full name of RNA
What is ribonucleic acid?
This type of mutation adds an extra nucleotide into a sequence of DNA
What is an insertion mutation?
Nucleus
Two processes that happen in the nucleus involving DNA
What are DNA Replication and Transcription?
What are the full names for tRNA and mRNA?
Transfer RNA, Messenger RNA
Anticodons are found on this molecule.
What is transfer RNA?
The type of mutation that has a nucleotide taken away from a sequence.
What is a deletion mutation?
The enzyme that unzips the DNA molecule during replication.
What is DNA helicase?
The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block)
What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogenous base?
The names of the 4 nitrogenous bases of RNA.
What are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Uracil?
The type of mutation that has no effect on the amino acid sequence.
What is a silent mutation?
Part of a nucleotide sequence that is cut out and discarded.
What is an intron.
What are 2 major differences between DNA and RNA?
DNA: double helix; RNA: single helix; DNA: deoxyribose; RNA: ribose; DNA: thymine; RNA: uracil
The type of mutations that cause a frameshift to occur
Insertion and deletion
The central dogma of molecular biology.
Genetic information flows in one direction: DNA to RNA to protein.