The process by which DNA is copied in a cell before a cell divides.
What is DNA replication?
100
An enzyme that catalyzes the formation of RNA on a DNA template.
What is RNA polymerase?
100
The making of a protein.
What is translation?
100
Frederick Griffiths
Who was the person that concluded from his four experiments that heat-killed virulent bacterial cells release a hereditary factor that transfers the disease-causing ability to the live harmless cells; transformation.
200
Hydrogen bond
What is the weak bond between the bases?
200
Helicase
What is the enzyme that separates the DNA strands.
200
A specific nucleotide sequence of DNA where RNA polymerase binds and initiates Transcription.
What is a promoter?
200
Three nucleotides on the RNA that are complementary to the sequence of the codon in the mRNA.
What is an anticodon?
200
Oswald Avery
Who was the person that tested to see if the transforming agent was DNA, RNA, or a protein.
300
Deoxyribose
What is sugar in DNA?
300
Replication Fork
What is the y shaped region called that results when two strands separate?
300
A specific sequence of nucleotides that marks the end of a gene.
What is a termination signal?
300
Peptide bond.
What is the bond between the methionine and the second amino acid.
300
Martha Chase, and Alfred Hershey
Who are the people that tested DNA and protein to find out that DNA is the hereditary molecule in viruses?
400
A sugar, a base and a phosphate
What is a nucleotide made up of?
400
A change in the nucleotide sequence of a DNA molecule.
What is a mutation?
400
UGA, UAG, UAA
What are the 3 stop codons?
400
The polypeptide falls off.
What is the result when the ribosome reaches the stop codon?
500
Purines have a double ring of carbon and nitrogen atoms, and pyrimidines have a single ring of carbon.
What is the difference between purines, and pyrimidines?
500
Diseases such as cancer.
What is the result of some mutations if they are not repaired?
500
It is the term for the rules that relate how a sequence of nitrogenous bases in nucleotides corresponds to a particular amino acid.
What is the genetic code?
500
The shape which is a result of the amino acid sequence.
What is the determinator of the specific function of the protein.