DNA Structure
Transcription
Translation
DNA Replication
Vocabulary Terms
100

The part of the nucleotide that makes up the the rungs (steps) of the DNA Helix.

What are the Nitrogenous bases?

100

Transcription is the transfer of information from

__________to ___________

Transfer of information from DNA to RNA

100

Translation is the transfer of information from RNA to synthesize __________

Transfer of information from RNA to proteins.

100

The only substance that can replicate itself

What is DNA?

100

Name the 3 parts of a nucleotide.

What are a sugar, a phosphate and a nitrogenous base? 

200

The subunits of DNA.

What are Nucleotides?

200

Transcription takes place here 

What is in the nucleus?

200

What are the 3 kinds of RNA?

Say what the lower case letter stands for.

mRNA

tRNA

rRNA

200

Replication takes place in this part of the cell

What is the nucleus?

200

Names of the purine nitrogenous bases

What are Adenine and Guanine?

300

Scientists who discovered that DNA's structure was a double heliix.

Who are Watson & Crick?

300

The molecule that carries the instructions for making a protein from the nucleus to ribosome.

What is mRNA?

300

Molecule that carries the amino acid to the ribosome?

tRNA

300

Replication takes place in this phase of cell division.

What is interphase?

300

Kind of Organic molecule made of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Phophorus that transmits hereditary information

What is a nucleic acid?

400

Name three differences between DNA & RNA

DNA is a double helix, RNA is single stranded.

DNA contains deoxyribose, RNA contains ribose.

DNA has Thymine, RNA has uracil.

400

If the DNA Strand has the following sequence of bases what would the sequence of bases be on the mRNA?

AATCCGAATTGG

mRNA would have

UUAGGCUUAACC

400

The site of protein synthesis?

What is the Ribosome?

400

In order for DNA to replicate it must untwist and _____

What is unzip?

400

Names of the pyrimidine nitrogenous bases

What are Cytosine, Uracil and Thymine?

500

Kind of weak bond that hold the nitrogenous bases of DNA together 


What are Hydrogen bonds?




500

The name given to the triplet of bases on mRNA.

What is a codon?

500

The amino acid assembled by the mRNA codon AAU

What is ASN?

500

The complementary base sharing rule used when DNA is replicating. No abbreviations, use full base name.

Adenine pairs with Thymine

Cytosine pairs with Guanine

500

A short segment of DNA information, whithin chromosomes, that serve as a code for bits of hereditary information.

What is a gene?