Transcription Trivia
The name of the enzyme responsible for transcribing DNA into RNA.
What is RNA polymerase?
The name of the process by which the mRNA sequence is translated into a protein.
What is translation?
Given the DNA sequence ATGCGTACCTAA, this is the corresponding RNA sequence after transcription.
What is AUGCGUACCUGA?
Given the RNA sequence AUGCGUACCUGA, this is the corresponding amino acid sequence after translation.
What is Methionine-Arginine-Threonine-Aspartic Acid?
This is the basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
The first step in transcription.
What is initiation?
The name of the structure that reads the mRNA and assembles the corresponding amino acids to make a protein.
What is the ribosome?
Given the DNA sequence TACGCTTTAAGG, this is the corresponding RNA sequence after transcription.
What is AUGCGAAAUCUU?
Given the RNA sequence UUCAGGAUGCCC, this is the corresponding amino acid sequence after translation.
What is Phenylalanine-Serine-Methionine-Proline?
This is the name of the molecule that contains genetic information in cells.
What is DNA?
Proteins called that bind to DNA and help RNA polymerase initiate transcription.
What are transcription factors?
The name of the RNA molecule that carries amino acids to the ribosome during translation.
What is transfer RNA (tRNA)?
Given the DNA sequence GCTATCGTAACT, this is the corresponding RNA sequence after transcription.
What is CGAUAGCAUUGA
Given the RNA sequence GGUAGUUCCUGA, this is the corresponding amino acid sequence after translation.
What is Glycine-Serine-Leucine-Aspartic Acid?
This is the term for a group of organisms of the same species living in the same area.
What is a population?
The process called where introns are removed and exons are spliced together in mRNA.
What is RNA splicing?
The name of the codon that signals the start of translation, and the codon(s) that signal the end of translation.
What is AUG (start codon), UAA, UAG, or UGA (stop codons)?
Given the DNA sequence AGTCTCTGAAGG, this is the corresponding RNA sequence after transcription.
What is UCAGAGACUUCU?
Given the RNA sequence CUCGGAGACUCC, this is the corresponding amino acid sequence after translation.
What is Leucine-Glutamic Acid-Threonine-Proline?
This is the process by which populations of organisms change over time in response to environmental pressures.
What is evolution?
The term for the regulation of gene expression by controlling the rate of transcription.
What is transcriptional regulation?
The types of modifications that can occur to a protein after it is translated.
What are phosphorylation, glycosylation, acetylation, or methylation, among others?
Given the DNA sequence TCGAGTCAGTTA, what is the corresponding RNA sequence after transcription.
What is AGCUCAUCUAAU?
Given the RNA sequence GACUUUAUUGUC, this is the corresponding amino acid sequence after translation.
What is Aspartic Acid-Leucine-Isoleucine-Valine?
Thisis the name of the muscle that contracts and relaxes to allow us to breathe.
What is the diaphragm?