The sugar that is part of DNA
What is deoxyribose?
Found in both DNA and RNA.
What is phosphate groups, Adenine Guanine and Cytosine?
These are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
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
Why can’t DNA leave the nucleus?
DNA is too long/bulky to exit through the nuclear pores.
The full names for the three different types of RNA
What are messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA?
Name the three different types of RNA and describe the function of each of them.
What is,
mRNA: delivers a copy version of a DNA gene from the nucleus to the ribosome.
tRNA: transfers the amino acids to the ribosome.
rRNA: part of the ribosome.
This happens during translation.
What is the cell uses a messenger RNA code to make proteins?
The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block)
What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogen base?
What strand do you look at to write down your amino acid sequence?
What is mRNA.
The number of nucleotides that make up a codon.
What is 3?
The reason why DNA replication happens.
What is to pass on genetic information to other cells during cell division?
This is the anticodon for CAG
What is GUC?
Contained in RNA but not DNA.
What is Uracil
The name for long chains of amino acids that form during protein synthesis.
What are polypeptides?