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Which type of nucleic acid has Thymine?
DNA
Where does transcription take place?
In the nucleus
What does the m in mRNA stand for?
messenger
A codon is a sequence of how many bases?
3 bases
Which type of nucleic acid has Uracil?
RNA
(including mRNA and tRNA)
How many nucleotide strand(s) are found in DNA?
Two (making a double Helix)
A codon table is read using this nucleic acid?
mRNA
What type of biomolecule is DNA?
Nucleic Acid
The process of reading the mRNA and producing a string of amino acids bonded together with peptide bonds is called?
translation
For this DNA strand A-T-G-G-C-C-T-G-G what is the complementary mRNA strand?
U-A-C-C-G-G-A-C-C
a tRNA carries _______ on one end and ________ on the other. What biology vocab words fill in those blanks.
amino acid and anticodon (or anticodon and amino acid)
What sugar is in DNA?
DNA has deoxyribose sugar
the process of forming an mRNA message from DNA and sending it out into the cytoplasm is called?
transcription
What does tRNA Stand for?
Transfer RNA
What carries copies of instructions to the ribosomes for assembling amino acids into proteins?
mRNA
What sugar does RNA have?
RNA has ribose sugar.
Any change in a DNA sequence.
A mutation
How many amino acids are there?
20
What are the 2 types of RNA that you have learned about?
mRNA, tRNA
mRNA has a(n) ___________; tRNA has a(n) ________________.
a) codon; anticodon
b) anticodon; codon
c) anticodon; anticodon
d) codon; codon
a) codon; anticodon
Translation happens in which organelle?
ribosome
What nitrogen base is found in RNA but not DNA?
(U)racil
Using a codon table what amino acid is UUG?
Leucine
What are the monomers of both DNA and RNA?
Nucleotides
A 3 base sequence carried on a tRNA is called what?
anticodon