DNA
DNA Replication
RNA
Transcription
Translation
Who Dunnit?
100
The purine in DNA that forms 3 H-bonds with its complementary nucleotide
What is Guanine?
100
The initial process is called unzipping is carried out by this enzyme.
What is DNA helicase?
100
The 3 major types of RNA
What are mRNA, tRNA, rRNA?
100
the area of a gene where RNA polymerase binds
What is the promoter?
100
The machine/organelle responsible for translation
What is the ribosome?
100
An x-ray photograph by this person was they key to elucidating the double helical structure of DNA
Who was Rosalind Franklin?
200
The length of DNA from one of your somatic cells
What is 3 meters? (9.8 feet)
200
Without these, the unzipped DNA would reanneal.
What are single-strand binding proteins?
200
Short regions of double stranded RNA
What are hairpin loops?
200
Proteins that facilitate binding of RNA polymerase to the promoter
what are transcription factors?
200
The sequence of the start codon
What is AUG?
200
Friedrick Miescher discovered this
What is DNA?
300
You have 3 billion of these in each of your cells right now.
What are nucleotide pairs?
300
An RNA polymerase that is involved with DNA replication.
What is primase?
300
the nucleotide most often found in RNA in place of Thymine
What is Uracil?
300
The 1st step of RNA processing
What is addition of a 5' cap?
300
The three stages of translation
What is initiation, elongation and termination?
300
A racist and misogynist scientist who won a nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA
Who is James Watson?
400
The location of DNA in a eukaryotic cell
What is the nucleus?
400
The place on a DNA strand where DNA replication starts
What is the origin of replication?
400
RNA molecules that have enzymatic activity
What are Ribozymes?
400
This prokaryotic protein is involved in termination of transcription.
What is Rho?
400
The region of tRNA that recognizes mRNA
What is an Anticodon?
500
The proteins that scaffold DNA.
What are histones?
500
This enzyme manages supercoiling in DNA
What is topoisomerase?
500
The strand of a gene that RNA polmerase binds to during transcription
What is the Template strand? (Anti-sense strand)
500
The 3' end of an mRNA transcript
What is the poly-A tail?
500
The site in the ribosome that the incoming tRNA docks to.
What is the A-site?