DNA
The sugar that is part of DNA
What is deoxyribose?
The sugar that is found in RNA
What is Ribose?
A mutation that does not change the sequence of amino acids and does not cause disease.
What is a silent mutation?
Gene therapy could one day help a patient with Trisomy 21, or 3 copies of chromosome 21, in humans which leads to this genetic disorder.
What is down syndrome?
The letters that represent the 4 nitrogen bases of DNA
What are A(denine), T(hymine), G(uanine), and C(ytosine)?
The sequence of nucleotide bases on mRNA that would complement the following bases on DNA: TAG
What is AUC
The type of mutation that occurs when one base is replaced by another.
What is a substitution?
A target gene is inserted into this circular DNA molecule.
What is a plasmid?
This happens to DNA in the nucleus to start protein synthesis.
What is transcription?
The full names for mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA.
What are messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA?
A mutation on a chromosome that copies a part of the genes.
What is a duplication mutation?
This genetic engineering technique can identify criminals or parents of a child using microsatellites.
What is DNA fingerprinting?
The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block)
What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogen base?
A change in the reading of codons and amino acids due to insertion or deletion.
What is a frameshift?
A disease that results in a change in the shape of hemoglobin in red blood cells due to a point mutation.
What is sickle cell anemia?
What protein synthesis means.
What is 'to make proteins'?
This is the anticodon for CAG
What is GUC?
The original strand of DNA is ACT TTG CGA The mutated strand of DNA is ACT TTC GA This is a _______________ mutation that causes a _________ of amino acids.
What is a deletion? What is a frameshift?
GMO stands for this.