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Protein Synthesis
Mutations
Inheritance
DNA and Related
Mitosis & Meiosis
100

Location of translation

What is the ribosome?

100
This term describes a change in a sequence of DNA
What is a mutation?
100

The passing of traits from one generation to the next

Inheritance

100
These are the four letters representing the different nitrogenous bases
What are A, T, C, and G?
100

What is the job of both meiosis and mitosis?

Make cells

200
The name of the subunits used to build proteins
What are amino acids?
200
This term describes the addition of an extra letter to a DNA sequence
What is an insertion?
200
These are different versions of a gene
What are alleles?
200

What is a chromosome?

supercoiled DNA

200

Name one difference between mitosis and meiosis

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300
This is a three-letter sequence of RNA that corresponds to a particular amino acid
What is a codon?
300
This term describes the removal of a letter from a DNA sequence
What is a deletion?
300
This is a section of DNA that codes for a specific protein
What is a gene?
300
This nitrogenous base occurs in RNA, but not in DNA.
What is uracil?
300

What happens during interphase?

DNA replicates, cell performs its job

400
This is the name of the molecule that carries genetic information from the nucleus to the ribosome
What is RNA?
400
This term describes changing one letter of DNA to another
What is a substitution?
400
These are genes that are expressed only when two copies are present
What are recessive alleles?
400

Which is a inside (and smaller than) a chromosome, gene, and DNA?

nucleotide

400
What happens to chromosome number during meiosis?
it is halved
500
This is the codon that tells the ribosome to start producing a protein
What is AUG?
500

What protein is mutated in NF1?

Neurofibromin

500

Characteristic of a dominant trait pedigree

Affected parents with an unaffected child.

500

What is the difference between mRNA and tRNA?

mRNA brings the message of how to create proteins from the nucleus to the ribosome, while tRNA transfers amino acids.

500

If nondisjunction occurs during meiosis II, how many cells will be normal, will have an extra, and have a lack?

Two cells will be normal, one cell will have an extra, and one cell will have a lack