DNA
DNA Replication
Protein Synthesis
Vocabulary
Misc.
100
The shape of DNA
What is a (twisting) double helix?
100
Where DNA is being replicated.
What is the nucleus of the cell during DNA replication?
100
The building blocks of proteins.
What are Amino Acids?
100
DNA strand that runs 5'-3'
What is the lagging strand?
100
The 4 nitrogen bases of an RNA molecule.
What are Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Uracil?
200
The "building-blocks" of DNA.
What are nucleotides?
200
The place where the DNA strand separates.
What is the replication fork?
200
The process of Protein synthesis in which mRNA is read in the ribosome and produces proteins.
What is translation?
200
The process of making proteins
What is protein synthesis?
200
The start codon (AUG)
What is Methionine?
300
The make-up of a nucleotide.
What consists of a deoxyribose sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogen base?
300
This enzyme glues the Okazaki Fragments
What is Ligase?
300
Typically abbreviated as "RNA."
What is "Ribonucleic Acid?"
300
The type of RNA that carries the message from the nucleus to the ribosome.
What is mRNA?
300
The three types of RNA in protein synthesis
mRNA
tRNA
rRNA
400
The bond that connects nitrogen bases in DNA in the rungs of the ladder
What are hydrogen bonds?
400
The end result of DNA replication.
What is 2 "semi-conservative" strands of DNA?
400
The DNA=AGC-TAC-GCT from the mRNA copy.
What is the DNA to this mRNA strand AGC-UAC-GCU?
400
The only enzyme to appear in Step 1 of DNA Replication (Breaks Hydrogen Bonds)
What is the DNA Helicase?
400
AUG-AGA-UUG-UAG
What is Methionine(Start)-Arginine-Leucine-Stop?
500
The person who initially discovered the shape of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
500
The direction in which DNA Polymerase builds the new strand. (Hint: It's the direction of the new strand)
What builds in 5'-3' during DNA Replication?
500
Numbers
The amount of types of Amino Acids.
The amount of Amino acids in a protein.
The amount of Bases in Codons/Anticodons
Numbers
20
1< (or just a chain of them)
3
500
The base paring rules: A+T, G+C
What is Chargaff’s rule?
500
The technique used to capture "Photo-51"
What is "x-ray crystallography?"