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DNA
RNA
Mutations
Gene Regulation
Miscellaneous
100
What are the 3 components of a nucleotide?
What is a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogen-containing base.
100
RNA is copied from DNA in this process?
What is transcription.
100
What is a mutation?
What is a change in the genetic material of a cell.
100
What turns on and off different proteins as needed?
What is the operon.
100
What is a bacteriophage?
What is a virus that infects bacteria.
200
What type of bond holds together the nitrogen bases together?
What is a hydrogen bond.
200
A codon represents this....
What is an amino acid.
200
Which mutations result in a frameshift mutation?
What is addition or deletion.
200
What are the lac genes turned off by?
What is the repressor.
200
Genes contain instructions for assembling these?
What are proteins.
300
What is the principle which determines which bases pair with each other?
What is base pairing.
300
What must happen to a DNA molecule before RNA polymerase can make RNA?
What is it must separate into two strands.
300
A mutation that involves a single nucleotide is called a(an)?
What is a point mutation.
300
After introns are cut out of RNA, what gets spliced together to form the final mRNA?
What is exons.
300
A mutation in these genes can change the organs that develop in specific parts of an embryo.
What are hox genes.
400
What is the process in which DNA makes a copy of itself.
What is DNA replication.
400
What causes translation to stop?
What is a stop codon on the mRNA.
400
Which type of mutation is NOT a gene mutation?
What is an inversion mutation.
400
What is the function of the operators and promoters?
What is DNA sequences which control when genes are turned on and off.
400
Chromatin contains these proteins.
What are histones.
500
What enzyme binds to DNA and separates the two DNA strands?
What is RNA polymerase.
500
Which RNA molecule carries amino acids?
What is transfer RNA.
500
What is translocation?
What is when part of one chromosome breaks off and attaches to another chromosome.
500
What is the promoter used as?
What is the binding site for RNA polymerase.
500
Avery's experiments showed that bacteria are transformed by.....
What is DNA.