DNA
It is a nitrogenous base not encountered in a DNA molecule.
What is uracil?
It's the number of hydrogen bonds linking C and G.
What is three?
This female scientist captured a perfect X-ray crystallography photo of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
It's a three "letter" code.
What is a codon?
It's the number of different amino acids.
What is twenty?
It's a particular factor that can cause a mutation.
What is mutagen, radiation or toxin?
It's what the "m" stands for in this kind of RNA.
What is messenger?
These descriptions of the double helix structure of DNA have two common comparisons, involving steps and rungs.
What is spiral staircase and twisted ladder?
It's the number of hydrogen bonds linking A and T.
What is two?
The American scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on DNA, but later had it taken away.
Who is James Watson?
It is the type of codon that leads to termination.
What is a stop codon?
These bonds connect amino acids.
What are peptide bonds?
This type of mutation affects only a single base pair.
What is a point mutation?
tRNA says, gotta go and pick up these passengers!
What are amino acids?
It's the part of interphase where the amount of DNA doubles.
What is S or Synthesis phase?
It's when DNA transfers its code to mRNA.
What is transcription?
This university in England was home of the discovery of the structure of DNA.
What is Cambridge?
These are the three steps of protein translation, in order.
What are initiation, elongation and termination?
It's the formal name of the NH2 group.
What is the amino group?
This disorder of hemoglobin occurs when the amino acid glutamic acid (glutamate) is replaced by the amino acid valine.
What is sickle cell anemia?
rRNA is linked to this small but important cell organelle.
What is a ribosome?
A doubled chromosome is made of two of these, partly named after a sibling relationship.
What are sister chromatids?
These two substances make up DNA's "backbone".
What is sugar (deoxyribose) and phosphate?
He was the Ukrainian scientist who discovered that the pairs A-T and C-G respectively, were present in the same percentages.
Who is Erwin Chargaff?
It happens when a protein is exposed to high heat or incorrect pH values.
What is denaturation?
The name of the COOH grouping of atoms.
What is carboxyl?
The kind of mutation caused by adding or deleting a base pair.
What is a frameshift mutation?
The three letters on tRNA are called this.
What is anticodon?
It's the two broad categories a molecular biologist would study.
What are nucleic acids and proteins?
You can find this at the 3' end of a DNA strand.
What is OH or hydroxyl?
The two English scientists who retained their DNA Nobel prizes.
Who are Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins?
If a tRNA codon is UGU, then the DNA codon would be this.
What is TGT?
This is the particular folding pattern of a protein.
What is protein conformation?
A mutation that reaches a premature stop codon. Call it gibberish if you want.
What is nonsense?
Non-coding sections of DNA deemed "junk" DNA.
What are introns?