Scientists
Determined that A=T and G=C
Who is Erwin Chargaff?
The sugar found in DNA.
What is deoxyribose?
The enzyme that unzips the DNA double helix.
What is helicase?
The site of transcription for prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
What is the the cytoplasm for prokaryotes and the nucleus for eukaryotes.
The sequence of three nucleotides in DNA or RNA that provide the instructions for building a protein.
What is a codon?
They won the Nobel prize for building the model of the DNA double helix.
Who were Watson & Crick?
The sugar found in RNA.
What is ribose?
DNA strands running side by side in opposite 5' to 3' directions.
What is antiparallel?
The specific area of DNA being rewritten into RNA.
What is the transcription bubble?
The start codon and amino acid it codes for.
What is AUG and Met (methionine)?
They took the x-ray diffraction image of DNA showing its helical structure.
Who were Wilkins & Franklin?
The type of bonds holding the strands of DNA together.
What are hydrogen bonds?
The process where each original strand of DNA serves as a template to build a new complementary strand.
What is semiconservative?
The enzyme that brings in the RNA bases according to the DNA template strand.
What is RNA polymerase?
A binding location within a ribosome where tRNA is linked to the growing protein chain.
What is the P site?
He was instrumental in determining the structure of proteins.
Who was Linus Pauling?
The building blocks of DNA and RNA.
What are nucleotides?
The segments of the replicated DNA that are a part of the lagging strand.
What are Okazaki fragments?
The processing step that prevents the degradation or breaking apart of the mRNA.
What is the 5' cap?
What is tRNA?
The first name of of either Wilkins or Franklin who were both involved in the X-ray diffraction photo of DNA.
What is Rosalind or Maurice?
The three parts of a nucleotide.
What are sugar, phosphate and nitrogen base?
The step in replication where DNA polymerase brings in the complementary DNA nucleotides.
What is elongation?
The portions of mRNA that are not needed for building a protein and will therefore be spliced out.
What are introns?
The three nucleotide sequence on a tRNA that pairs with mRNA and ensures that the correct amino acid is delivered to the ribosome.
What is an anticodon?