Vocabulary
The genetic make up of an organism
What is a genotype?
This person discovered the DNA double helix shape
Who was Rosalind Franklin?
The number of nucleotide base pairs are in a codon.
What is 3?
the complimentary base pair to Cytosine
what is Guanine?
The type of mutation where one of more nucleotides are deleted
What is deletion?
What is a Ribosome?
Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe discovered this about the soil composition of her home country Eritrea
the amino acid that codes for beginning a strand of protein.
What is Met (Methionine)?
the complimentary base pair to Adenosine
What is Thymine?
The type of mutation where one of more nucleotides are inserted
What is insertion?
Three nucleotide sequence on mRNA that codes for a single amino acid
What is a codon?
Dr Alan Powell Goffe was a black microbiologist in the 1950s who helped develop a vaccine for this deadly infectious disease
What are polio and measles?
The codons all code for the same amino acid: UCU, UCC, UCA, UCG
What is Ser (Serine)?
When Thymine DNA is translated into RNA it becomes this.
What is Uracil?
In the DNA sequence below, this is the type of mutation.
TCG TGA AAA AGA GGC
TCG TGG AAA AGA GGC
What is substitution?
the building blocks of proteins that contain an amino acid, a carboxyl group, a hydrogen ion, and a unique side chain
What are amino acids?
this person invented resistors, targeted missiles, IBM computer microchips, and the pace maker
Who is Otis Boykin?
an example of a stop codon
What are UGA, UAA, UAG?
The complimentary DNA strand to: ATTAACGGGATC
What is TAATTGCCCTAG?
This happens when the rna sequence: GUGAACUCG changes to GUGAACUCC.
What is no change?
Group of three bases on a tRNA molecule that are complimentary to an mRNA codon?
What is an anticodon?
This person helped create the mRNA vaccine for the Coronavirus.
Who is Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire?
What is Glu (Glutamate)?
What is the RNA transcription of the DNA strand: TTCGGACATGAC
What is AAGCCUGUACUG?
What is DMD (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy)?