N-Bases
Transcription
Translation
Nucleic Acid Structure
Nucleic Acid Discoveries
100

This base is only found in RNA

What is uracil

100

The resulting molecule after transcription

What is mRNA

100

The three types of RNA used in translation

What is mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA

100

The three components found in a nucleotide

What is a phosphate group, a sugar, and a base

100

The decade when the structure of DNA was discovered

What is the 1950's

200

Always pairs with guanine

what is cytosine

200

Location of transcription for a eukaryotic cell

What is the nucleus

200

Set of 3 nucleotides in sequence on mRNA

What is a codon

200

The complimentary DNA strand of the strand below:

3' ACAGGCTACTGCATT 5'

What is 5' TGTCCGATGACGTAA 3'

200

These two individuals came up with the structure of DNA

Who are Watson and Crick

300

Form 2 hydrogen bonds when they complimentary base pair

What are adenine and thymine

300

In eukaryotic cells, what must occur after transcription before the mRNA can be translated?

What is RNA splicing (removing introns, adding poly-A tail...)

300

This happens to mRNA after translation has occurred

What is degrade

300

Where RNA can be found in a eukaryotic cell

What is the nucleus and the cytoplasm

300

Took a photograph using x-ray crystallography 

Who was Rosalind Franklin

400

These bases are purines

What are adenine and guanine

400

Enzyme responsible for the production of mRNA in transcription

What is RNA polymerase II

400

The resulting polypeptide after translation of the following mRNA strand

5' AGCAAUGCCCUAAGGUACGCAAUUAG 3'

What is Met-Pro

400

The carbon that is missing oxygen in deoxyribose

What is the 2' carbon

400

Noticed that adenine and thymine always came in equal amounts in a strand of DNA

who was Erwin Chargaff
500

N-bases with only a single ring

What are pyrimidines

500

RNA strand hangs freely as it is being transcribed, upon completion the transcription complex falls apart and the RNA is separated from...

What is DNA template?

500

The following template strand of DNA is transcribed.  

5' AACATACTTAGGCCATTAGGCGA 3'

What would the resulting polypeptide be?

What is Met-Ala

500

The number of hydrogen bonds between the following sequence of nucleotides and it's complimentary strand:

ATTCCGATCAGGGACTAAATCGGA

What is 59

500

This individual determined that DNA carried the genetic information, not proteins

Who was Oswald Avery