DNA
The sugar that is part of DNA
What is deoxyribose?
The sugar that is found in RNA
What is Ribose?
Translation of RNA to protein happens here
What is a Ribosome?
A chromosomal mutation in which the order of parts of the chromosome are reversed.
What is an inversion mutation?
These are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The 4 nitrogen bases of DNA
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?
The sequence of nucleotide bases on mRNA that would complement the following bases on DNA: A T T C G C A G T
What is U A A G C G U C A
DNA is copied into a strand of RNA during this step of protein synthesis.
What is Transcription?
The full names for three different types of RNA
What are messenger RNA, transfer RNA, ribosomal RNA, and micro RNA?
Anticodons and amino acids are found on this molecule.
What is transfer RNA?
A mutation that occurs when part of one chromosome breaks off and attaches to another.
What is chromosomal translocation?
This enzyme creates new DNA strands by linking nucleotides together.
What is DNA polymerase?
The three parts of the DNA nucleotide
What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogen base?
The names of the 4 nitrogen bases of RNA.
What are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Uracil?
Groups of three bases on a mRNA molecule
What is a codon?
This states that the amounts of guanine and cytosine are about the same in DNA, and the amounts of adenine and thymine are about the same in DNA.
What is Chargaff's rule?
The reason why DNA replication needs to happen.
What is to pass on genetic information to other cells during cell division?
Two differences between the STRUCTURE of RNA and DNA.
What is DNA is double stranded and RNA is single stranded? What is RNA has Ribose and DNA has Deoxyribose? What is RNA has the base Uracil and DNA has the base Thymine?
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 _________.
What is a deletion? What is a frameshift?