Proteins
Serves as the building block for tissues, enzymes, and other cellular functions
What is protein?
The building blocks of DNA and RNA
What are nucleotides?
What are the four nitrogenous bases in DNA?
What is thymine, adenine, guanine, and cytosine?
The process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA
What is transcription?
The process involving the synthesis of a protein from an mRNA template
What is translation?
What are amino acids?
The two different types of sugar in nucleotides in DNA and RNA
What is ribose and deoxyribose?
The base pair corresponding with cytosine
What is guinine?
The molecule that carries genetic instructions from DNA to the ribosome for protein synthesis
What is mRNA (messenger RNA)?
The molecule that carries amino acids to the ribosome during translation
What is tRNA (transfer RNA)?
The two stages of protein synthesis
What is transcription and translation?
The three parts of a nucleotide: ribose, phosphate, and ______
What is a nitrogenous base?
The base pair corresponding with thymine
The part of the cell responsible for protein synthesis
What is the ribosome (which is in the cytoplasm)?
The ribosome reads mRNA in sets of three bases. They are known as...
What are codons?
The process which determines the structure of a protein
A sequence of DNA which can be found on a chromosome, codes for a specific protein and is part of the entire genome of an organism
What is a gene?
The base pair corresponding with Uracil
What is adenine?
Transcribe the following DNA strand into its complementary DNA sequence:
TACGGCATTCAGTACG
What is ATGCCGTAAGTCATGC?
This part of the tRNA molecule binds to the codon on the mRNA during translation
What is the anticodon?
The bond linking together amino acids during synthesis
What is a peptide bond?
The place where DNA is found
What is the nucleus?
The two corresponding base pairs with adenine (DNA and RNA)
What is uracil and thymine?
Find the corresponding RNA sequence of this DNA sequence:
TACGGCATTCAGTACG
What is AUGCCGUAAGUCAUGC?
Translate the following RNA sequence into its corresponding amino acids: AUGCCAAAGGUAUGUUAA
What is Methionine-Proline-Lysine-Valine-Cysteine-Stop?