What is the DNA backbone?
Phosphate and sugar
Monomer of RNA
Nucleotide
Why does transcription happen?
So DNA can stay safe in the nucleus
The full names for the 2 different types of RNA
What are messenger RNA and transfer RNA?
Proteins that do a job- help to unzip DNA and match up complementary nucleotide bases during DNA replication and protein synthesis.
What are enzymes?
The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block)
What are sugar, phosphate and nitrogen base?
RNA Polymerase
The enzyme that helps build mRNA
The reason why DNA replication happens.
Cell growth, repairing wounds, reproduction
Two differences between the STRUCTURE of RNA and DNA.
DNA is double stranded and RNA is single stranded RNA has the base Uracil and DNA has the base Thymine
Why the order of amino acids matters?
Different order = different function!