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DNA Structure
DNA Replication
RNA and Protein Synthsis
Transcription and Translation
Mutations
100
The full name for DNA.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
100
When each strand of the DNA double helix has all the information needed to reconstuct te other haf.
What is base pairing?
100
Coded DNA instructions that control the production of proteins.
What are genes?
100
The enzyme required in transcription.
What is RNA polymerase?
100
Changes in the genetic material.
What is a mutation?
200
The four bases that make up DNA.
What are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine?
200
The enzyme that breaks the bonds between the nitrogenous bases.
What is DNA helicase?
200
The thress main differences between RNA and DNA.
What are: the sugar in RNA is ribose instead of deoxyribose, RNA is generally single-stranded, and RNA contains uracil in place of thymine?
200
The regions of DNA were RNA polymerseinds to.
What are promotors?
200
A mutation that produces changes in the whole chromasome.
What is a chromosomal mutation?
300
The group of bases where the structure has two rings of atoms. Ex. adenine, guanine
What are purine bases?
300
The direction that DNA polymerase works on the new strand as if forms.
What is 5' to 3'?
300
States that DNA codes for RNA which guides the synthesis of proteins.
What is the Central Dogma of Biology?
300
The three-base code in mRNA what specifies a particular amino acid.
What is a codon?
300
The three types of point mutations.
What are subsitutions, insertions, and deletions?
400
The person who shot an x-ray through DNA to create Photo 51.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
400
The enzyme that links together Okazaki fragments.
What is DNA ligase?
400
Transfers each amino acid of the ribosome during protein constuction.
What is tRNA?
400
The decoding of an mRNA message into a poypedptie chain.
What is translation?
400
The condition in which an organism has extra sets of chromosomes.
What is polyploidy?
500
A cluster of histones and the two loops of DNA around it.
What is a nucleosome?
500
When DNA polymerase moves backwards for short intervals, creating small pieces of DNA.
What are Okazaki fragments?
500
The structure of RNA.
What is a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base?
500
The codon that each amino acid chain always begins with.
What is AUG?
500
A mutagen.
What are chemicals and other substances that can cause mutations?