DNA
RNA
Protein Synthesis
Mutations
Miscellaneous
100

The sugar that is part of DNA

What is deoxyribose?

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
These are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
200

The 4 nitrogen bases of DNA

What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?

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

Two processes that happen in the nucleus involving DNA

What are DNA Replication and Transcription?

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 change in amino acid sequence and a non-functional protein.
What is an expressed mutation?
300

These special types of proteins help to unzip DNA and match up complementary nucleotide bases during DNA replication and protein synthesis.

What are enzymes?

(DNA helicase, DNA polymerase - DNA replication) (RNA polymerase -  protein synthesis)

400

The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block)

What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogen base?

400
The names of the 4 nitrogen bases of RNA.
What are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Uracil?
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

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?

500

The reason or purpose for why DNA replication happens.

What is to pass on genetic information to other cells during cell division?

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

This is the anticodon for CAG

What is GUC?

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

The name for long chains of amino acids that form during protein synthesis.

What are polypeptides?