Proteins
________________ are the building blocks of proteins.
Are amino acids the building blocks of proteins?
___________ is the monomer of nucleic acids.
What is a nucleotide?
___________ , ___________ , ___________ , ___________ are the nitrogenous bases found in DNA.
Are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine the nitrogenous bases for DNA?
___________ , ___________ , ___________ are the three types of RNA.
Are mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA the three types of RNA?
Transcription occurs in the ____________ , and translation occurs in the ____________ .
Does transcription occur in the nucleus and translation in the ribosome?
____________, ____________, ____________, ____________ are four functions of proteins.
Are ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________ functions of proteins?
ACG is an example of a mRNA ___________ and UGC is an example of a tRNA ___________ that would pair with ACG.
What is an example of a codon and anti-codon?
______________ unzips the DNA strands for replication/transcription to take place.
What is the function of the enzyme DNA helicase?
___________ , ___________ , ___________ , ___________ are the nitrogenous bases found in RNA.
Are adenine, uracil, cytosine, and guanine the nitrogenous bases for RNA?
______________ is the process of converting DNA into RNA.
What is transcription?
Amino acids bond together with ___________ bonds to create polypeptide chains.
What are peptide bonds?
This type of nucleotide is ___________ (DNA or RNA).
LOOK AT WHITEBOARD!
Is that an example of an DNA nucleotide?
____________ and ___________ makes up the backbone of DNA.
Does the phosphate group and deoxyribose sugar make up the backbone of DNA?
After DNA helicase unzips the DNA strands, __________________ brings RNA base pairs to the strand to start creating mRNA.
What is the function of the enzyme RNA polymerase?
_________________ is the process of using mRNA and tRNA to build a polypeptide.
What is translation?
__________ is the universal start codon and codes for the amino acid ___________ .
Is AUG universal start codon and does it code for Met?
This type of nucleotide is ___________ (DNA or RNA).
LOOK AT WHITEBOARD!
Is that an example of an RNA nucleotide?
During DNA replication, the DNA strand that has the bases GTTAGGT produces a strand with the bases ____________ .
Does the new strand produced have the bases CAATCCA?
____________ and ___________ makes up the backbone of RNA.
Does the phosphate group and ribose sugar make up the backbone of RNA?
Use the codons below to find the DNA sequence, anticodons AND amino acid sequence.
AUG CGU AUC CCA UGG
Is this the DNA sequence, anticodons, and amino acid sequence?
DNA: TAC GCA TAG GGT ACC
Anticodons: UAC GCA UAG GGU ACC
Amino Acids: Met Arg Ileu Pro Trp
Determine the type of mutation that has occurred here.
Original DNA: TAC TGG ACA CTT ATC ACT
Mutated Strand: TAC TGG ACC TTG TCA CT
What is a deletion mutation?
The amount of adenine is equal to the amount of ___________ .
Is the amount of thymine/uracil equal to the amount of adenine?
The ___________ of a DNA molecule is responsible for the direct coding of specific traits in an organism.
Is the order of nucleotide (nitrogen bases) bases responsible for coding specific traits?
Change the following DNA strand into an mRNA strand.
AAT TTA CGT CCG AAT
UUA AAU GCA GGC UUA ?
__________ occur when a bases(s) are substituted, inserted, or deleted from a specific section of gene.
What are mutations?