Mutations
Structure and Function of DNA
Transcription and Translation
Structure and Function of RNA
Miscellaneous
100
Heritable changes in genetic information
What is a mutation
100
Nucleic acids made up of nucleotides joined into long strands or chains by covalent bonds
What is DNA
100
Part where segments of DNA serve as templates to produce complementary RNA molecules
What is Transcription
100
This sugar is is replaced by deoxyribose
What is ribose
100
information is transferred from DNA to RNA to protein
What is the central dogma
200
Gene mutations that involve changes in one or a few nucleotides
What is point mutations
200
The nearly perfect fit between A-T and G-C nucleotides
What is base pairing
200
Signals in the DNA molecule that show RNA polymearse exactly where to begin making RNA
What are prometers
200
In RNA what is in place of thymine
What is uracil
200
kind of virus that infects bacteria
What is bacteriophages
300
Another name for insertions and deletions
What are frameshift mutations
300
A,G,C,and T
What are the nitrogen base pairings
300
the collective three unpaired bases
What is the anticodon
300
This contains instructions for assembling amino acids into proteins
What is the messenger RNA
300
The enzyme that joins individual nucleotides to produce a new strand of DNA
What is DNA polymearse
400
-Substitutions - Insertions - Deletions
What are point mutations
400
Name of the observation that [A]=[T] and [C]=[G]
What is Chargaff's rule
400
information is transferred from DNA to RNA to protein
What is the central dogma
400
the one job that most RNA molecules are involved in
What is protein synthesis
400
The tips of chromosomes
What is telomeres
500
-Deletion -Duplication -Insertion -Translocation
What are chromosome mutations
500
Number of possible three base codons in the genetic code of RNA
What is 64
500
These are composed of roughly 80 proteins and 3 or 4 different rRNA molecules
What are ribosomes
500
Sequence specific regulators of post-transcriptional gene expression in many eukaryotes
What is miRNA
500
Replication starts at a single point and proceeds in two directions until the entire chromosome is copied
What is prokaryotic DNA replication