Lipids
An example of lipids in your food.
What are fats and oils?
What are "amino acids"?
The gooey stuff that we pulled out of a strawberry.
What is DNA?
Central Dogma Theory
What is "DNA makes RNA makes protein"?
The main substance that causes heart disease.
The science word for fat and oil.
What are triglycerides?
The source of all the proteins in your body.
What is "DNA and RNA"?
The function of RNA in a cell.
What is "build proteins"?
The second step of protein synthesis.
What is translation?
The "good cholesterol."
What is HDL?
Where most of your cholesterol comes from.
What is the liver?
The three general functions that proteins support in your body.
What are "growth, function, and repair?"
The nucleotide that is only found in DNA but not RNA.
What is thymine? (or T?)
The RNA sequence that will be made by TACGCCATG.
What is "AUGCGGUAC"?
The function of the LDL-R protein.
What is "lowers your cholesterol"? (or "brings cholesterol into the liver cell?")
The function of cholesterol and phospholipids in the body.
Changing this will change the shape of a protein.
What is an amino acid sequence?
All of the DNA in a cell.
What is a genome?
A nucleotide is missing in a gene.
What is "frameshift"?
How doctors check your cholesterol levels.
What is a "lipid panel test"?
The four atomic elements that lipids are made of.
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus?
This can stop the production of a protein.
What is a stop codon? (or mutation?)
The sugar that RNA strands are made of.
What is ribose?
A large RNA molecule that makes proteins for a cell.
What is a ribosome?
How family history affects your risk of heart disease.
What is "DNA produces bad LDLR proteins"?