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ProteinSynthesisVoc
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bacteriophage | takes over a bacterium's genetic machinery and directs it to make more viruses |
| nucleotide | small unit, or monomers, that make of DNA |
| double helix | 2 strands of DNA wound around each other like a twister ladder |
| base pairing rules | thymine&adenine and cytosine&guanine |
| replication | DNA is copied during the cell cycle |
| DNA polymerase | enzymes that form bond between nucleotides during repication |
| RNA | chain of nucleotides |
| transcription | copying a sequence of DNA to produce a complementary strand of DNA |
| RNA polymerse | enzymes bond necleotides |
| messenger RNA | message translated to form a protein |
| ribosomal RNA | forms part of ribosom, a cells protein factories |
| Transfer RNA | brings amino acids form the cytoplasm to a ribosome to help make the growning protein |
| translation | process that converts, or translates a mRNA into a polypeptide |
| stop condons | singal that end of the amino acids chain |
| start condons | signal the start of tranlation and amino acids mathionine |
| anticodons | set of three nucleotides that is complementary |
| promoter | DNA segement that allows a gene to be transcribed |
| operon | region of DNA that does for all task proteins |