DNA
The full name of DNA
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid
A sequence of three nucleotides
What is a Codon
The full name of RNA
Ribonucleic Acid
The sequence of three nucleotides that is complementary to a codon
What is an anticodon
What are proteins
A string of Amino Acids that make up body tissues
The three components of DNA structure
What are Phosphate group, Deoxyribose sugar, and Nitrogen base
Where does transcription take place?
What is the nucleus
The function of RNA
What is creating Amino Acids from the information stored in DNA
Where does Translation take place?
The cytoplasm (on the ribosomes)
The three components involved in the Central Dogma of Biology
What are DNA, RNA, and Proteins
The nitrogen base that pairs with Cytosine
What is Guanine
What is transcription
When information from a DNA strand is copied into RNA
Nitrogenous base in RNA that binds with Adenine
Uracil
What is Translation
When codons form mRNA are coded to form Amino Acids
The two processes involved in the Central Dogma of Biology
What are Transcription and Translation
The nitrogen base that pairs with Adenine in DNA
What is Thymine
The form of RNA involved in Transcription
What is mRNA
The RNA form that moves DNA information from the nucleus to the cytoplasm
What is messenger RNA (mRNA)
The form(s) of RNA involved in Translation
tRNA or rRNA
The number of Amino Acids
What is 20
Four Enzymes that carry out DNA replication
What are DNA Polymerase, Primase, Helicase, and Ligase
The enzyme that builds a strand of RNA from DNA
RNA Polymerase
What are the three types of RNA
mRNA, tRNA, rRNA
The anticodon that binds to CGA
What is GCU
The start codon/Amino Acid
Methionine/ AUG