DNA
RNA
Protein Synthesis
Mutations
Miscellaneous
100

The Backbone of DNA is made of this.

What is phosphate & sugar (deoxyribose)

100

The full name of RNA

What is ribonucleic acid?

100
Translation of RNA to protein happens here
What is a Ribosome?
100
The type of mutation that occurs when one base is replaced by another.
What is a substitution?
100
These are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
200
The 4 nitrogen bases of DNA
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?
200
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
200
DNA is copied into a strand of RNA during this step of protein synthesis.
What is Transcription?
200

This type of mutation adds an extra nucleotide into a sequence of DNA

What is an insertion mutation?

200
Transcription happens here

Nucleus

300

Two processes that happen in the nucleus involving DNA

What are DNA Replication and Transcription?

300

What are the full names for tRNA and mRNA?

Transfer RNA, Messenger RNA

300

Anticodons are found on this molecule.

What is transfer RNA?

300

The type of mutation that has a nucleotide taken away from a sequence.

What is a deletion mutation?

300

The enzyme that unzips the DNA molecule during replication. 

What is DNA helicase?

400

The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block)

What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogenous base?

400

The names of the 4 nitrogenous bases of RNA.

What are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Uracil?

400
Groups of three bases on a mRNA molecule
What is a codon?
400

The type of mutation that has no effect on the amino acid sequence.

What is a silent mutation?

400

Part of a nucleotide sequence that is cut out and discarded. 

What is an intron.

500
The reason why DNA replication happens.
What is to pass on genetic information to other cells during cell division?
500

What are 2 major differences between DNA and RNA?

DNA: double helix; RNA: single helix; DNA: deoxyribose; RNA: ribose; DNA: thymine; RNA: uracil

500
This is the anticodon for CAG
What is GUC?
500

The type of mutations that cause a frameshift to occur

Insertion and deletion

500

The central dogma of molecular biology.

Genetic information flows in one direction: DNA to RNA to protein. 

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