DNA Structure
The site where transcription occurs.
What is the nucleus?
The site of translation in the cell.
What is cytoplasm (more specifically ribosome)?
The purpose of replication.
What is to produce 2 identical strands of DNA?
The molecule produced in transcription.
What is mRNA?
The product of translation (what translation makes)
What is a protein?
The last codon formed by translation is a ____ codon.
What is stop?
What is phosphate and sugar (deoxyribose)?
The enzyme that opens the strand of DNA.
What is helicase?
The meaning of the "m" in mRNA.
What is messenger?
The molecule that brings amino acids to the ribosome by matching up complementary codons.
What is tRNA?
The amino acid produced by the codon CAG.
What is glutamine?
This is the name of the building blocks of DNA (it contains three molecules).
What is nucleotide?
What is TGCAGG?
If the DNA sequence is GCAATC, this is the mRNA sequence.
What is CGUUAG?
The name for the sets of 3 nucleotides on mRNA.
What is codon?
The amino acid that always starts and is made from the codon AUG.
What is methaianine?
The 3 parts of a nucleotide.
What is phosphate, sugar, base.
The enzyme that adds nucleotides to DNA.
What is DNA polymerase?
The name of the enzyme that adds nucleotides to the growing mRNA
What is RNA polymerase?
The name for a sequence of amino acids produced by translation.
What is a polypeptide chain?
The codon GAU matches up with this amino acid.
What is Aspartate?