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Structure
Replication
Transcription
Translation
Mutations
100
Name the 4 nucleic bases used in DNA.
What are Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine?
100
This molecule unzips the hydrogen bonds in DNA replication?
What is helicase?
100
The conversion of DNA into its complimentary messenger RNA.
What is transcription?
100
The conversion of mRNA into the amino acid sequence of protein.
What is translation?
100
A change in a base sequence of the DNA or RNA.
What is a mutation?
200
The monomer of deoxyribose, a phosphate group, and one of 4 nitrogen bases
What is a nucleotide?
200
This molecule adds the bases pairs in replication to create the new molecules.
What is DNA polymerase?
200
This molecule creates the complimentary mRNA from the DNA strand?
What is RNA polymerase?
200
The site and organelle were translation takes place.
What is the cytoplasm and ribosome?
200
The 3 types of point mutations
What are insertions, deletions, substitutions?
300
This pair of scientists demonstrated that DNA is made of two strands twisted into a double helix.
Who are Watson and Crick?
300
The complimentary base sequence of the following DNA strand: TACGGATACCCAAATTGAATT
ATGCCTATGGGTTTAACTTAA
300
The complimentary mRNA strand from the following DNA strand? TACGGATACCCAAATTGAATT
AUGCCUAUGGGUUUAACUUAA
300
This amino acid always signals the start of a protein.
What is methionine?
300
This mutation causes a change in all of the information that is after it.
What is a frameshift mutation?
400
This scientist produced the x-ray crystallographs used to find the structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
400
Two new identical strands of DNA are made out of half of the original strand and half of the new strand.
What is semi-conservative replication?
400
Transcription takes place in this part of a cell?
What is the nucleus?
400
This molecule acts as a "middleman" between the mRNA and amino acids.
What is tRNA?
400
A mutation where a gene moves from one chromosome to another.
What is translocation?
500
Nitrogenous bases can be grouped into these two types of molecules.
What are purines and pyramidines?
500
Errors DNA are fixed by this molecule.
What is DNA polymerase?
500
This nitrogenous base is unique to RNA.
What is uracil?
500
This 3 base sequence found on tRNA is complementary to the codon found on mRNA.
What is an anticodon?
500
This type of chemical can induce a mutation.
What is a mutagen?