DNA
The term used to describe the shape of a DNA molecule.
What is a double helix?
Creating a daughter cell.
What is the purpose of DNA replication?
The type of RNA molecule that helps decode a message for a sequence into a protein.
What is tRNA?
This is the location in the cell where transcription takes place.
What is the nucleus?
What is translation?
The nitrogenous base that pairs with cytosine.
What is guanine?
The enzyme that "unzips" the DNA in preparation for replication
What is helicase?
The type of RNA that produces instructions to make proteins and takes them from the nucleus to the cytoplasm.
This is produced by transcription.
What is RNA?
This acts as the template during translation after it was made in transcription.
What is mRNA?
The nitrogenous base that pairs with adenine in DNA.
What is thymine?
The enzyme that "glues" DNA fragments together.
What is ligase?
The nitrogenous base that pairs with adenine in RNA.
What is uracil?
The first step in gene expression.
What is transcription?
What is the ribosome?
Along with the nitrogenous bases and a phosphate group, this is the basic building block for DNA.
What is a sugar group?
The enzyme that replicates DNA molecules in order for replication.
What is polymerase?
The term that can be used to describe the shape of RNA.
What is a single helix?
The main enzyme involved in transcription.
RNA polymerase
The thing that tells mRNA to stop translation.
What is a stop codon?
A thread-like structure found in the nucleus of a cell made up of DNA
What is a chromosome?
What is an incorrectly coded (mutated) gene?
These two bases pair differently in RNA than they do in DNA, and one does not exist in DNA.
What are uracil and adenine?
Making an RNA copy of a gene's DNA sequence
What is the purpose of transcription?
The change the polypeptide goes through before becoming an active protein.
What is folding?