The Structure of DNA
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The process of getting RNA from DNA
What is transcription?
Favorable traits that result in increased survival and reproduction
What is natural selection?
A diagram that represents the evolutionary relationship between organisms with a common ancestor
What is a phylogenetic tree?
The nucleic acid structure consists of three things
What is a sugar, phosphate, and nitrogenous base?
Three types of frameshift mutations
Connects the loose RNA nucleotides together during transcription
What is RNA polymerase?
The independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods in time
What is convergent evolution?
Similar function only (ex: BIRD WINGS VS BEE WINGS)
What is an analogous structure?
The nitrogenous base variants consist of a single 6-membered ring and a 6-membered and 5-membered ring
What is pyrimidine and purine?
The enzymes in involved in DNA replication (in order)
What is Helicase, Primase, DNA Polymerase, and Ligase?
The sequence of codons in the mRNA at a ribosome directs the sequence of amino acids into a polypeptide. A nucleic acid sequence is _______ into a protein sequence
What is translation?
Differences in DNA sequences between individuals within a population
What is genetic variation?
The study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time
What is systematics?
The NAMES of the four bases in DNA
What is Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine?
The phase in which DNA replication occurs
What is S-phase of interphase?
The NAMES of the bases in RNA
What is Adenine, Uracil, Cytosine, and Guanine?
Homologous structures, such as mammal limbs, is an example of ________ evolution
What is divergent evolution?
A technique that uses the mutation rate of biomolecules to deduce the time in prehistory when two or more life forms diverged
What is a molecular clock?
The bonding between strands of DNA
What is hydrogen bonds?
The DNA sequence plus kinetochore proteins function in chromosome organization
What is centromere?
Composed of exons and introns
What is pre-mRNA?
Exons will be Expressed
Introns will occur IN between the exons
The different types of speciation
What is sympatric & allopatric speciation?
Organization of life (in order)