DNA
RNA/Mutations
REPLICATION
TRANSCRIPTION
TRANSLATION
100
The shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
100

What is different about the nitrogenous bases of RNA?

Thymine to Uracil?

100

How is a DNA strand created?

5'-3'?

100

What is made during transcription?

What is RNA?

100
The end product of translation
What is an amino acid chain or protein chain?
200

What bond holds the nitrogenous bases together?

What is hydrogen bond?

200

What does a nonsense mutation do?

Creates a stop? Point

200

During DNA replication, a DNA strand that has the bases ATTCGA produces a strand with the bases ...

What is TAAGCT?

200

What are the three nitrogenous bases that make an amino acid called?

Codon

200
mRNA is "read" by this organelle to form a protein chain
What are ribosomes?
300

Who are the three people credited with the discovery of the structure of DNA?

Watson, Crick, Franklin

300

What does a missense mutation do and what type of mutation is it?

changes one amino acid? Point

300

Enzyme that proofreads new DNA strands

What is DNA polymerase?

300
The base pair rules for transcirption.
What is ... A-U T-A G-C?
300

What is the RNA called that transfers the RNA form the nucleus to the ribosome?

mRNA (Messenger RNA)

400

What is one molecule found in the back bone and the four nitrogenous base and how they pair?

Phosphate group, Deoxyribose, and base (A, T, C, or G)

400

What type of deletion is this?

AUG GCC GAC

AUG CCG ACG

What is Deletion/Frameshift?

400

What are the two enzymes that break apart the DNA strand and Glue the fragments back together?

Helicase/Ligase?

400
Why does transcription take place?
DNA cannot leave the nucleus and therefore must be transcribed to mRNA to leave the nucleus.
400
Type of RNA that "brings" amino acids to the ribosome
What is tRNA?
500

Explain the Griffith experiment ant why it was important for discovering DNA is our genetic code.

S strand, Strand, Mice

500

Number of nitrogenous bases  needed to make 6 amino acids

What is 18?

500

What is created on the lagging strand?

Okazaki fragments

500

Describe the Avery experiment.

DNAase, RNAase, Proteinase

500

What are the anti-codons for this mRNA strand?AUG CGG AAA 

UAC GCC UUU