There's a Protein for That
These proteins control where and when chemical reactions occur in cells.
What are enzymes?
These are the monomers of DNA.
What are nucleotides?
The specific stage of the cell cycle when DNA replication occurs.
What is S phase (of interphase)?
When a gene is being transcribed and translated we say it is being this.
What is expressed?
One or more of these bind to the active site of the enzyme in a chemical reaction.
What are substrates (or reactants)?
DNA and RNA are both types of this major group of biomolecules.
What are nucleic acids?
The complementary DNA to the following sequence: GTAATAGTA
What is CATTATCAT?
Silent mutations cause no change in this part of a protein.
What is an amino acid?
Muscles have specialized proteins that allow them to perform this function.
What is contract (or move)?
The unique shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
The complementary RNA for this DNA sequence: CATGTCA
What is GUACAGU?
These mutations can involve duplicating or removing tens or hundreds of genes at a time.
What are chromosomal mutations?
Antibodies are a type of protein that are important in this function.
What is protection/defense?
In DNA guanine always pairs with this.
What is cytosine (C)?
mRNA is used to create a chain of amino acids in this process.
What is translation?
This type of gene mutation involves switching one nucleotide to another.
What is a point mutation?
Hemoglobin is a protein that binds to oxygen and carbon dioxide in red blood cells, meaning that it has this protein function.
What is transport?
In RNA there is no thymine; instead there is this.
What is uracil (U)?
Because it reuses the two halves of the original DNA strand, we call DNA replication this.
What is semiconservative?
This type of gene mutation causes every amino acid after the mutation to change.
What is a frameshift mutation?