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
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
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
Anticodons and amino acids are found on this molecule.
What is transfer RNA?
300

A mutation that changes the amino acid to a stop signal.

What is a nonsense mutation?

300

A piece of a chromosome breaks off and re-attaches to a nonhomologous chromosome.

What is a translocation mutation?

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
A disease that results in a change in the shape of hemoglobin in red blood cells due to a point mutation.
What is sickle cell anemia?
500

The DNA double helix looks like a twisted ladder. The ________ makes up each rung of the ladder, and the ________  bond holds the rungs together.

What is a nitrogen base? What is a hydrogen bond?

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

The name for long chains of amino acids that form during protein synthesis.

What are polypeptides?

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

A portion of the chromosome is flipped (reversed) and gets inserted back into the chromosome.

What is an inversion mutation?

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