RNA
Protein Synthesis
Mutations
Miscellaneous
100
The sugar that is found in RNA
What is Ribose?
100
Translation of RNA to protein happens here
What is a Ribosome?
100

A mutation that does not change the sequence of amino acids and does not cause disease.

What is a silent mutation?

100

The enzyme that builds the mRNA from the DNA template

RNA polymerase

200
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
200
DNA is copied into a strand of RNA during this step of protein synthesis.
What is Transcription?
200
The type of mutation that occurs when one base is replaced by another.
What is a substitution?
200
The bonds that link amino acids together.
What are peptide bonds?
300
The full names for the three different types of RNA
What are messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA?
300
Anticodons and amino acids are found on this molecule.
What is transfer RNA?
300

A mutation that results in a stop codon being in the wrong place.

Non-sense mutation

300

What does it mean for codons to be unambiguous

Each codon codes for only ONE amino acid. 
400

This type of RNA has the anti codon on it and also carries amino acids

tRNA

400
Groups of three bases on a mRNA molecule
What is a codon?
400
The type of mutation that happens when a base is either deleted or inserted, causing a change in the reading of codons and amino acids.
What is a frameshift?
400

What does it mean that codons are redundant? 

Multiple codons will code for the same amino acid. 

500

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?

500

The DNA template strand reads CCA. What would the anticodon read? 

CCA 

500

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?

500

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