DNA
What is the molecule of heredity?
What is DNA.
What 3D shape does DNA take?
What is double helix.
What does it mean when DNA replication is said to be semi-conservative?
What is half the parental molecule is maintained in each daughter molecule.
What is synthesized from a DNA template during transcription?
What is mRNA.
What is translation?
What is the synthesis of a protein under the direction of mRNA.
What are the chemical units/chemical building blocks that make up DNA?
What are nucleotides.
What is the main structural difference between DNA and RNA?
What is DNA is double stranded, RNA is single stranded.
Where does DNA replication occur?
What are the three steps of transcription?
What is initiation, elongation, and termination.
In what organelle does translation occur?
What is ribosomes.
What are the four nitrogenous bases found in the nucleotides of DNA?
What is adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.
What is the full name of DNA (what does "DNA" stand for)?
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid.
What characteristic of DNA allows for it to be so efficient?
What are base-pairing rules
What determines where transcription begins and acts as a binding site for RNA Polymerase?
What is a promoter (specific nucleotide sequence)
What other RNA molecule (besides mRNA) is used in the translation process?
What is tRNA.
What nitrogenous base is found in RNA and not DNA?
What is uracil.
What is the primary function of DNA?
What is to encode and store genetic information and act as a molecule of heredity.
What enzyme allows for the replication of DNA?
What is DNA Polymerase.
What is the transcription enzyme that moves along the gene and forms a new RNA strand by following base-pairing rules?
What is RNA Polymerase.
How does tRNA match the correct amino acid that the mRNA strand codes for?
What is using anticodons that match with the correct codon on the mRNA strand.
What are the three components of a nucleotide?
What are a nitrogenous base, a phosphate group, and a sugar.
I have a DNA strand that consists of 30% Adenine. What percent of this DNA strand is Cytosine? (Chargaff's Rule)
What is 20% Cytosine.
DNA replication results in two (different/identical) DNA strands.
What is identical.
What is synthesized at the end of transcription?
What is an mRNA molecule.
What is the final product of translation?
What is a completed polypeptide/protein.