Transcription
The process called when DNA is used as a template to create mRNA?
What is transcription?
The process where mRNA is read to create animo acids.
What is translation?
The building blocks of DNA.
What are nucleotides?
The building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
When someone cannot produce lactase in adulthood.
What is lactose intolerance?
The part of the cell where transcription occur.
What is the nucleus?
The 3 nucleotide sequence that is read during translation.
What is a codon?
The names of the four nucleotides found in DNA.
What is Thymine, Guanine, Adenine, and Cytosine?
The number of amino acids that exist.
What is 20?
When someone CAN produce lactase in adulthood.
What is lactase persistence?
The DNA segment that is read in transcription.
What is the template strand?
The machinery that reads codons to add amino acids.
What is tRNA?
The difference in base between RNA and DNA.
What is Uracil instead of Thymine?
3 functions that proteins can do.
What is structural, enzyme, antibodies, messenger proteins, transport?
The gene that codes for lactase.
What is the LCT gene?
The enzyme responsible for synthesizing mRNA from the DNA template strand.
What is RNA polymerase?
What is the ribosome?
The base pairing of nucleotides in a DNA strand.
C -> G
G -> C
T -> A
A -> T
The types of bonds are important for maintaining the structure of proteins.
What are peptide bonds?
The regulatory gene that is mutated in lactase persistence individuals.
What is MCM6?
The base pairing going from DNA to mRNA.
T -> A
A -> U
C -> G
G -> C
The number of combinations of codons there are.
What is 64?
The significance of the sequence of nucleotides in DNA.
What is a gene?
The difference between Hb and HbS that results in sickle cell anemia in HbS.
What is glucose and galactose?