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 things 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? What is DNA polymerase?
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
These bonds form between nitrogen bases of the DNA molecule and allow it to have the double helix structure.
What are hydrogen bonds?
500
The reason why DNA replication happens.
What is to pass on genetic information to other cells during cell division?
500
RNA polymerase.
What is the enzyme involved in the construction of mRNA?
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 idea that DNA codes for mRNA which is the information used to protein assembly?