Molecules of Life
Bonds that share electrons equally.
What is nonpolar covalent bonds?
What is ribose (RNA) and deoxyribose (DNA)?
A nitrogenous base with a sugar.
What is a nucleoside?
The bond type that connects amino acids.
What are peptide bonds?
Ribosome components.
What is the small and large subunits?
Complex molecules made up of repeated simpler units (monomers) connected by covalent bonds
What are polymers?
The nitrogenous bases that differ in RNA and DNA.
What is uracial in RNA and thymine in DNA?
The type of interaction that holds the DNA strands together.
What is hydrogen bonding?
The components that make up an amino acid.
What is the alpha carbon, the amino group, the carboxyl group, the R group, and the hydrogen group?
The start codon.
AUG
The macromolecule that is not a polymer.
What are lipids?
The bond that holds together the sugar backbone of DNA.
What is a phosphodiester bond?
The enzyme that performs transcription.
What is RNA polymerase?
The interactions that stabilize tertiary protein structure.
What are covalent bonds, ionic bonds, hydrogen bonds, and van der Waals forces?
What is the site where the peptide bond forms?
Water hating vs. Water loving.
What is hydrophobic vs. hydrophilic?
The 3 things that describe DNA's 3-D structure.
What is anti-parallel, complementary, and double helical?
The specific sequence in a region where RNA polymerase is able to recognize transcription start.
What is the TATA box in the promoter region?
The three non-coding codons.
Polycistronic mRNA
What is RNA can code for multiple proteins, but eukaryotes do not do this.
The ratio of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen molecules in carbohydrates.
1:2:1
Name the complementary RNA to the following strand of DNA 5'-CGATTCA-3'
What is 3'-GCUAAGU-5'?
What is the 5' cap, 3' poly A tail, and RNA splicing?
T/F: All proteins have quaternary structure.
What is false?
The special property which is the reason why transcription and translation can occur simultaneously in only certain cells.
What is the lack of a nucleus in prokaryotes?