DNA
RNA
Protein Synthesis
Mutations
Miscellaneous
100
The sugar that is part of DNA
What is deoxyribose?
100
The sugar that is found in RNA
What is Ribose?
100
Translation of RNA to protein happens here
What is a Ribosome?
100
A mutation that does not change the sequence of amino acids and does not cause disease.
What is a silent mutation?
100

Why is DNA replication called a "semi-conservative" process?

DNA replication is "semi-conservative" because each new molecule of DNA has one original strand and one newly synthesized strand (it is half conserved, or half saved)

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
The type of mutation that occurs when one base is replaced by another.
What is a substitution?
200
The bonds that link amino acids together.
What are peptide bonds?
300
Two things that happen in the nucleus involving DNA
What are DNA Replication and Transcription?
300
The full names for the three different types of RNA
What are messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA?
300

This uses RNA to make a protein molecule.

What is translation?

300
A mutation that results in a change in amino acid sequence and a non-functional protein.
What is an expressed mutation?
300

These special types of proteins help to unzip DNA and match up complementary nucleotide bases during DNA replication and protein synthesis.

What are enzymes?

400
The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block)
What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogen base?
400
The names of the 4 nitrogen 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 happens when a base is either deleted or inserted, causing a change in the reading of codons and amino acids.
What is a frameshift?
400

These two men are credited with figuring out the shape & structure of DNA. They used a photograph taken by a female fellow scientist (+points if you can name the female scientist).

James Watson and Francis Crick (+points for Rosalind Franklin)

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

Two differences between the STRUCTURE of RNA and DNA.

What is DNA is double stranded and RNA is single stranded? What is RNA has RIbose and DNA has Deoxyribose? What is RNA has the base Uracil and DNA has the base Thymine?

500

This type of RNA connects the amino acid molecules.

What is tRNA?

500
The original strand of DNA is ACT TTG CGA The mutated strand of DNA is ACT TTC GA This is a _______________ mutation that causes a _________ of amino acids.
What is a deletion? What is a frameshift?
500
The name for long chains of amino acids that form during protein synthesis.
What are polypeptides?
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