Building Blocks
The building blocks of proteins
What are amino acids?
Where DNA is stored
What is the nucleus?
The process that copies a gene into mRNA
What is transcription?
The base that cytosine pairs with
What is guanine?
The molecule that is read by ribosomes during translation
What is RNA?
A triplet of 3 nucleotides that codes for an amino acid
What is a codon?
Where transcription occurs
What is the nucleus?
The process that creates an amino acid from mRNA
What is translation?
The base that guanine pairs with
What is cytosine?
What DNA stands for
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
The kind of sugar found in RNA
What is ribose?
Where translation occurs
What is the cytoplasm?
How mRNA would transcribe the DNA sequence GAT
What is CUA?
The base that adenine pairs with in DNA
What is thymine?
What RNA stands for
Ribonucleic acid
The kind of sugar found in DNA
What is deoxyribose?
The molecule on which codons are found
What is mRNA?
The two parts of protein synthesis
What are transcription and translation?
The base that uracil pairs with in RNA
What is adenine?
The 3 types of RNA
The 3 parts of a nucleotide
The molecule that brings amino acids to the ribosome
What is tRNA?
The central dogma of biology
DNA --> RNA --> Proteins
The base that adenine pairs with in RNA
What is uracil?
The function of RNA polymerase
What is adding nucleotides to a strand of RNA?