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Ch. 10
Questions
Question | Answer |
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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 |