DNA
RNA
DNA Replication
Protein Synthesis
Mutations
100
Base exclusive to DNA
What is thymine?
100
Base exclusive to RNA
What is uracil?
100
When two DNA molecules come out from one
What is [DNA] replication?
100
Three letters that code for a specific amino acid
What is a codon?
100
Change in DNA that only occurs at a single spot
What is point mutation?
200
Three things that make up a nucleotide
What are the [5-carbon] sugar, phosphate [group], and [nitrogenous] base?
200
The clearest (visible) difference between RNA and DNA
What is a double helix?
200
A scientist who discovered what DNA looked like, using x-ray diffraction
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
200
A step in protein synthesis in which a single strand of mRNA is created
What is transcription
200
A change in DNA that affects the entire sequence
What is frameshift mutation?
300
There are equal amounts of thymine to adenine and cytosine to guanine
What is Chargaff's rule?
300
What RNA codes for
What are proteins?
300
Enzyme that assembles and corrects the order of nucleotides
What is polymerase?
300
A step in protein synthesis in which tRNA plays its main part
What is translation
300
A change in DNA that doesn't alter the proteins being coded for
What is silent mutation?
400
Monomers that consist of hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, and phosphorus
What are nucleic acids?
400
Where RNA is located
What are the nucleus and ribosomes?
400
The purpose of a single DNA strand
What is serving as a template?
400
Aka a chain of polypeptides
What is a protein?
400
A change in DNA that results in a premature stop codon
What is nonsense mutation
500
Sugar in DNA
What is deoxyribose?
500
The full name of RNA
What is ribonucleic acid?
500
The basis of [biological] inheritance
What is [DNA] replication?
500
Codons in _____ acids code for _____ acids
What are nucleic and amino acids?
500
A change in DNA that can result in cri-du-chat syndrome
What is chromosomal mutation?
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