Transcription
What is transcription?
What is the synthesis of mRNA using DNA as a template?
What are the four bases of DNA?
What are adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine?
What is translation?
What is the synthesis of a protein using mRNA as a template?
What mutation deletes a base?
Deletion
Where does translation occur?
Ribosome
Which enzyme creates the mRNA from the DNA template strand?
What is RNA polymerase?
What shape is DNA?
Where in the eukaryotic cell does translation take place?
What is the cytoplasm or ribosome?
Mutation where there is a 180 flip
inversion
What direction do we always read mRNA
5'-3'
What is the mRNA codon made from the following DNA template?
TAC
What is AUG
What are the four bases in RNA?
What are adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil?
What is the specific code that tells the ribosome that translation has ended?
stop codon
Mutation where a section of chromosome moves to a non homologous pair
Translocation
What binds to the promoter in eukaryotic cells?
transcription factors
Where does transcription take place in a eukaryotic cell?
What is the nucleus?
What is the central dogma?
What is DNA --->RNA--->protein
the growing amino acid chain coming off the ribosome is what?
a protein
Mutation where a base changes to another?
Substitution
What is the name of the sugar in DNA?
Deoxyribose
What is splicing?
When you cut out the start/stop sequence and the introns
What are the three components of a nucleotide?
What are
phosphate
sugar
base
Translation is so named because we are translating something. What is the “translator”?
tRNA
Mutation where entire sections of the DNA are effected?
Chromosomal mutations
What is the name of the technology where you can edit genomes?
CRISPR