Transcription

Transcription Steps

100

How many steps of transcription are there?

3

200

What is the first step of transcription?

Initiation

300

What is the second step of transcription?

Elongation

400

What is the third step of transcription?

Termination

500

What is the order of transcription

initiation, elongation, and termination.

Definitions

100

DNA

is the 'blueprint' for making proteins

200

Ribosome

is a factory for making proteins

300

RNA

ribonucleic acid, a nucleic acid present in all living cells and acts as a messenger carrying instructions from the DNA.

400

RNA polymerase

is an enzyme that synthesizes RNA from a DNA template

500

Adenine

a compound which is one of the four bases of nucleic acids

Transcribing

100

What letter does A go with?

T

200

What letter does A go with?

U

300

What letter does T go with?

A

400

Transcribe AUGGCUA

TACCGAT

500

What letter does RNA use instead of T?

U