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RNA
Protein Synthesis
Mutations
Gene Regulation and Expression
Genetic Code
100
A nucleic acid that consists of a long chain of nucleotides.
What is RNA?
100
Each 3 letter word in mRNA
What is a codon?
100
___________ are heritable changes in genetic information.
What are mutations?
100
a group of genes that are regulated together.
What is an operon?
100
proteins are made by joining amino acids together into long chains called ________________
What are polypeptides?
200
The RNA molecules that carry copies of instructions.
What is messenger RNA
200
The process of decoding an mRNA message into a protein.
What is translation?
200
Genetic mutations that involve changes in one or a few nucleotides.
What is point mutation?
200
A set of master control genes.
What are homeotic genes?
200
the four letters (A, C, G, U)
What is the genetic code?
300
Synthesis of an RNA molecule from a DNA template.
What is transcription?
300
Each tRNA molecule that has 3 unpaired bases.
What is an anticodon?
300
In ____________ one base is changed to a different base.
What is substitutions?
300
______________ code for transcription factors that activate other genes that are important in cell development and differentiation.
What are Homeobox genes?
300
Signals in the DNA molecule that show RNA polymerase exactly where to begin making RNA.
What is a promoter?
400
The portions that are cut out and discarded from RNA strands.
What is introns?
400
the way in which DNA, RNA, and proteins are involved in putting genetic information into action into living cells.
What is gene expression?
400
___________ and ____________ are point mutations in which one base is inserted or removed from the DNA sequence.
What is insertions and deletions?
400
Gene regulation helps undergo _____________ becoming specialized in structure and function.
What is differentiation?
400
3 sub units are made up of several __________ molecules and as many as 80 different proteins.
What is ribosomal RNA?
500
An enzyme required in transcription that binds to DNA and separates the DNA strand
What is RNA polymerase?
500
the ________ _________ of molecular biology is the information is transferred from DNA to RNA to protein.
What is the central dogma?
500
chemical or physical agents in the environment.
What is mutagens?
500
this gene controls the expression of a fly's body
What are hox genes?
500
the condition in which an organism has extra sets of chromosomes.
What is ployploidy?