DNA
The sugar that is part of DNA
What is deoxyribose?
What are the 4 nitrogen bases in RNA?
What are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Uracil?
Translation of RNA to protein happens here
What is a Ribosome?
An error in DNA replication is called a?
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
What is U A A G C G
DNA is copied into a strand of RNA during this step of protein synthesis.
What is Transcription?
The type of mutation that occurs when one nitrogen base is replaced by another.
What is a point/substitution?
What type of mutation is it where chromosomes are affected?
chromosomal mutation
Two steps of Protein Synthesis that happen in the nucleus involving DNA
What are DNA Replication and Transcription?
The full names for the three different types of RNA
What are messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA?
What is the anticodon for the codon CAG
GUC
What is the term for something that causes a mutation?
mutagen
The process of making a complementary DNA strand from a strand of DNA is called?
Replication
The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block)
What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogen base?
What is the sugar in RNA?
Ribose
Groups of three bases on a mRNA molecule
What is a codon?
The type of mutation that happens when one chromosome swaps its pieces with another chromosome.
translocation
What is the term when chromosomes do not fully or correctly separate during Meiosis
nondisjunction
The reason why DNA replication happens.
What is to pass on genetic information to other cells during cell division?
An RNA sequence has 10 codons, how many amino acids are in this sequence?
10
Anticodons and amino acids are found on this molecule.
tRNA
The original strand of DNA is ACT TTG CGA The mutated strand of DNA is ACT TTC GA This is a _______________ mutation.
deletion/frameshift
This is the type of mutation where a chromosome rearranges its own pieces.
inversion