A mutation that does not change the length of a DNA strand.
What is a substitution 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 mRNA during this step.
What is Transcription?
200
The type of mutation that occurs when one base is replaced by another.
What is a substitution?
200
DNA is like a _________ and the recipes are for _________
cookbook/proteins
300
Where do DNA replication and transcription happen?
What is the nucleus?
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 results in a shorter DNA sequence.
What is a deletion mutation?
300
These special types of proteins help to unzip DNA and match up complementary nucleotide bases during DNA replication. (2 proteins)
What are helicase and DNA Polymerase?
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 category of mutation that happens on a DNA base pair level.
What is a gene mutation?
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 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 is the anticodon for CAG
What is GUC?
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.