All About DNA
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DNA Fingerprinting
100
What are the base pair rules for DNA?
What is Adenine - Thymine & Guanine - Cytosine
100
What are the base pairing rules for RNA?
What is Adenine - Uracil, Guanine - Cytosine, Thymine - Adenine
100
The acronym RNA stands for what?
Ribosenucleic Acid
100
A codon is composed of how many base pairs?
What is 3?
200
What does the acronym DNA stand for
Deoxyribosenucleic acid
200
Where does transcription take place?
Where is inside the nucleus?
200
The process to describe DNA turning into RNA and then a protein is known as
What is the Central Dogma?
200
Which RNA molecule is responsible for bringing amino acids into the ribosome?
What is tRNA?
300
What are the three groups that form a nucleotide?
What is a phosphate, sugar and nitrogen base
300
True or false mRNA is double stranded
False!
300
Name the bonds that hold together DNA's sugar/phosphate backbone
What is Covalent/Phosphodiester bonds?
300
Where does translation take place?
What is the ribosome?
400
What are the bonds that hold nitrogen bases together in DNA
What is Hydrogen Bonds
400
What enzyme is responsible for transcription?
What is RNA Polymerase?
400
A section of DNA that codes for a specific protein is known as a what?
What is a gene?
400
What is the start/met codon?
What is AUG?
500
Name the 4 enzymes responsible for DNA synthesis (replication)
What is Topoisomerase, Helicase, Primase & DNA Polymerase
500
What are the three kinds of RNA molecules?
What is mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA?
500
Who were the three scientists responsible for discovering DNA?
Who is Watson, Crick & Rosalind
500
Translate this mRNA sequence into an amino acid sequence
CCCAUGGUAUUAUAAG
What is Met- Val - Leu - Stop
500
Name 2 reasons for adding loading dye into the DNA samples
1. To visualize the DNA once its ran
2. To hold the DNA down into the wells