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Ch. 10
Questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962? | Watson and Crick |
| What is the process of coping DNA in a cell? | Replication |
| What is the DNA nucleotide 3 parts? | Sugar, Phosphate, and Nitrogen Containing Bases |
| What does the letter (a) stand for? | Adenine |
| What are used to signify the nitrogen bases? | Letters |
| What is the letter used to Represent Adenine? | A |
| What is the enzyme that binds to separated chains of DNA? | DNA polymerase |
| What does the change in the nucleotide sequence cause? | Mutation |
| What are the three types of RNA? | Messenger RNA, Transfer RNA, and Ribosomal RNA |
| What is the process by which genetic information is copied from DNA to RNA? | Transcription |
| What are the products of transcriptions called? | Transcripts |
| What are proteins? | Polymers |
| What is a correlation between a nucleotide sequence and an amino acid chain? | Genetic Code |
| What is the process of assembling polypeptides from information encoded in mRNA? | Translation |
| What are Ribosomes composed of? | rRNA and proteins |
| How many binding sides are key to the translation of Ribosomes? | Three |
| What is the letter used to signify Guanine? | G |
| What is the letter used to signify Thymine? | T |
| What is the letter used to signify Cytosine? | C |
| If the original sequence of DNA is A T T C C G, then what is the new nucleotide chain? | T A A G G C |
| What begins replication simultaneously at different points along the chains? | DNA polymerase |
| What can enzymes repair? | Error's |
| Enzymes can repair error's and bring the error rate down to what? | 1 per 1 billion nucleotides |
| Watson and Crick suggested a _________ model for the structure of DNA. | Double Helix |
| The assembly of a polypeptide begins when a _________ attaches to a start codon. | Ribosome |
| What type of RNA binds to specific amino acids? | Transfer RNA (tRNA) |
| The most abundant form of RNA is__________. | Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) |
| The production of proteins is also called _________. | Protein Synthesis |
| Proteins are _______________. | Polymers |
| 3 mRNA nucleotides = __________ | Codon |