DNA structure
Experiments
Transcription and RNA editing
Translation
Mutations
100
the basic shape of DNA
What is the double-helix?
100
Scientists who discovered the structure of DNA
Who are Watson and Crick?
100
The three main types of RNA
What are mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA?
100
Location of translation
What are ribosomes?
100
These are the 2 types of mutations
What are gene mutations and chromosomal mutations?
200
complementary DNA base sequence to ATCG
What is TAGC?
200
The scientist who discovered the process of transformation
Who is Frederick Griffith?
200
The process by which DNA is used as a template to create an RNA strand
What is transcription?
200
This type of RNA brings the amino acid to the ribosome
What is tRNA?
200
These types of mutations shift the "reading frame" of the genetic code
What are frameshift mutations?
300
The components of a nucleotide
What are nitrogenous base, 5 carbon sugar, and phosphate?
300
This was found by Avery to be the transforming factor in bacteria
What is DNA?
300
Transcription and RNA editing take place here...
What is the nucleus?
300
This is like a period at the end of a mRNA strand...
What is a stop codon?
300
The potentially least harmful type of point mutation
What is substitution?
400
The type of bond that holds nucleotide bases together
What are hydrogen bonds?
400
The scientist whose discovery was used by Watson and Crick in their discovery
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
400
Non-coding sequences of nucleotides that are cut out of the RNA molecule
What are introns?
400
This is created during translation
What is a polypeptide chain?
400
A group of genes that operate together to regulate genes
What is an operon?
500
guanine and adenine belong to this group of compounds which have 2 rings in their structure
What is purine?
500
Hershey and Chase proved that this was not the genetic material of the bacteriophage
What is protein?
500
The region of the DNA where enzymes will bind for transcription
What is the promoter region?
500
Each tRNA carries a unique one of these
What is an amino acid?
500
Suppose a complete set of chromosomes fail to separate during meiosis, and the gametes that result produce triploid or tetraploid organisms. This is known as...
What is polyploidy?