This nucleic acid contains the instructions to make proteins.
What is DNA?
100
This is where transcription takes place in a eukaryotic cell.
What is the nucleus.
100
The protein making machinery.
What is a ribosome?
100
This is how many strands make up an RNA molecule.
What is one?
200
This is the number of strands found in DNA
What is two?
200
This nucleic acid is the molecule of heredity.
What is DNA?
200
The specific instructions written in DNA for a protein.
What is a gene?
200
This is where translation takes place in a eukaryotic cell.
What is a ribosome (in the cytoplasm)?
200
These are the 4 bases found in RNA.
What are G, A, U, and C?
300
It is what we call the fact that G pairs with C and A pairs with T
What is specific base pairing?
300
This nucleic acid makes up the bulk of the protein-making machinery in the cell.
What is rRNA (ribosomal RNA)?
300
This is the molecule that is made in Transcription.
What is RNA?
300
This is the part of a tRNA that can read the message in the mRNA.
What is the anticodon?
300
This is the building block (monomer) of RNA
What is a nucleotide?
400
This is what the backbone of DNA is made of.
What is the sugar-phosphate backbone?
400
This type of nucleic acid works as an adapter molecule and can read nucleotides on one side, and has an amino acid on the other side.
What is tRNA (transfer RNA)?
400
This is how a cell "knows" what bases to add to the mRNA strand based on the instructions in DNA. (For example, it knows when there is a "C" in DNA to add a "G" to the mRNA sequence)
What is specific base pairing?
400
These are the 3 bases that are read together to spell for a specific amino acid.
What is a codon?
400
This is what the backbone that holds together a strand of RNA is made of.
What is sugar and phosphate?
500
This type of bond holds together the two strands of DNA
What are hydrogen bonds?
500
This type of nucleic acid contains the temporary instructions of a gene to the protein-making machinery.
What is mRNA (messenger RNA)
500
Whether or not a gene is transcribed in a particular cell (which determines whether or not a protein is made).
What is gene expression?
500
This is what type of molecule is stuck together to make a protein (ie the building blocks of proteins).