DNA
The complementary strand to this DNA strand:
GTAGTAGTAGTAGTA
What is:
CATCATCATCATCAT
This enzyme not only separates the DNA strand but also uses one strand of DNA as a template to make the new RNA strand.
What is RNA polymerase?
True/False: Most amino acids can be specified by more than one codon.
DNA is in this structural form, where it's strands run antiparallel to each other.
What is Double-Helix?
RNA has this many strands, while DNA has this many.
What are 1 strand (RNA) and 2 strands (DNA)?
The name for this monomer that makes up a nucleic acid.
What is a nucleotide?
This is a region of DNA with a specific base sequence that RNA polymerase binds to.
What is a promoter region?
In RNA, we call three consecutive bases that specify a single amino acid this.
What is a Codon?
These four nucleotides make up DNA.
What are GTAC?
Guanine, Thymine, Adenine, Cytosine
The Central Dogma of Biology is this.
What is DNA to RNA to Protein?
This enzyme "unzips" a molecule of DNA by breaking the hydrogen bonds between the nucleotides.
What is DNA Helicase?
Name the three types of RNA we talked about in class.
What are messenger RNA (mRNA), ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and transfer RNA (tRNA)?
When a ribosome attaches to the mRNA and starts to read the codons, this process begins.
What is Translation?
These four nucleotides make up RNA.
What are GUAC?
Guanine, Uracil, Adenine, Cytosine
tRNA molecules attach this to the mRNA codons as the codons are read three at a time.
What is an anticodon?
This enzyme joins nucleotides together to synthesize a new complementary strand of DNA--it also acts as a "proofreader" of the new DNA strand.
What is DNA Polymerase?
These parts of RNA are what are cut out and discarded when RNA is edited.
What are introns?
Unlike Transcription, Translation happens in this place of the cell.
What is the cytoplasm?
A nucleotide is made up of these three components
What is a 5-carbon sugar (deoxyribose), a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base?
In Prokaryote DNA replication, the chromosome is copied in how many directions?
What is two directions?
DNA is referred to as this, as each new molecule has 1 strand of the original and 1 new one.
What is semiconservative?
This process takes place in the nucleus and results in the copying of a DNA base sequence into RNA.
What is Transcription?
A string of animo acids joined together into a chain.
What is a polypeptide?
The scientists who used Rosalind Franklin's x-shaped picture to develop the model structure of DNA.
Who are Watson and Crick?
Characterized as "weak bonds" these bonds are important in holding the DNA nucleotides together and allowing them to break apart for replication.
What are hydrogen bonds?