General (or Random) Questions
DNA is ____ stranded; RNA is ____ stranded.
What is Double Stranded and Single Stranded?
The process of "rewriting" the DNA code to RNA.
What is transcription?
The process of converting the RNA code to an amino acid code.
What is translation?
The DNA codon "chunks" of the sequence: ACGTTCGAT
What is ACG TTC GAT?
Which two processes make up protein synthesis?
What is transcription and translation?
The sugar found in DNA is ____; the sugar found in RNA is ____.
What is Deoxyribose and Ribose?
The process of DNA making an exact copy of itself.
What is replication?
The building blocks of proteins
What are Amino Acids?
The transcribed code from this DNA sequence: TAC GTT AGA TAG. The type of is RNA here is ____.
What is AUG CAA UCU AUC? And what is mRNA?
The three types of RNA ("full" names!).
What is messenger RNA (mRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA), ribosomal RNA (rRNA)?
The type of RNA that is the corresponding code to DNA that will leave the nucleus to be read by a ribosome.
What is messenger RNA (mRNA)?
The nucleotides that are used for DNA and the nucleotides that are used for RNA.
What is ATCG for DNA and AUCG for RNA?
The genetic code is read three nitrogen bases at a time. A group of three nitrogen bases is called _____. This codes for one _______.
What is a Codon and an Amino Acid?
The translated code of the mRNA sequence AUG CAA UCU AUC The type of RNA that provides the amino acids for translation _____.
What is Met-Gln-Ser-Ile? And what is transfer RNA (tRNA)?
The cellular location of transcription; the cellular location of translation.
What is nucleus and cytoplasm?
The type of RNA that carries amino acids to the ribosome during translation.
What is tRNA?
The protein building instructions stored in DNA "leave" the nucleus to where they are translated by this biological molecule.
What is mRNA?
The number of amino acids used to make proteins.
What is 20 Amino Acids?
The mRNA code that creates the amino acid sequence: Met-Arg-Pro-Lys-STOP.
What is AUG AGG CCC AAG UAG?
The amount of components in an organism made up of proteins.
What is everything or almost everything!?
The organelle where translation takes place.
What is ribosome?
The DNA molecule cannot leave the nucleus because __________________________________?
What is DNA is too big?
The reason tRNA knows where to go during translation.
What is the anticodon?
Transcription (mRNA sequence) and Translation (amino acid sequence) that results from the DNA code TAC CAA CGT ACC AAA TGA.
What is backwards Translation: AUG GUU GCA UGG UUU ACU? What is backwards Translation: Met-Val-Ala-Trp-Phe-Thr?