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Chapter 12

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What type of molecule is DNA?   organic  
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What is DNA made up of?   carbon  
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What macromolecule is DNA?   nucleic acid  
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Where is DNA located?   in the nucleus; in the chromosomes  
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What does DNA stand for?   deoxyribose nucleic acid  
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What are the functions of DNA?   hereditary instructions; chemical code for every trait; "blueprint" for making proteins  
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What are the building blocks of nucleic acids?   nucleotides  
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What three parts make up DNA?   phosphate groups, deoxyribose, nitrogen bases  
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What are the nitrogen bases that are in DNA?   adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine i  
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What is the shape of DNA?   ladder, double helix  
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What does Watson and Crick's DNA model loock   Slides Rotate: sugar, phosphate, sugar, phosphate Rungs: Attached to sugar  
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What is the complimentary base for thymine?   adenine  
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What is the complementary base for guanine?   cytosine  
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what is the complementary base for thymine?   adenine  
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What is the complementary base for cytosine?   guanine  
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What first has to happen during DNA replication?   DNA untwists  
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What do enzymes do to DNA so it can replicate?   unzip them  
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What happens after the DNA is unzipped?   DNA polymerase creates corresponding base pairs  
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After the DNA polymerase creates corresponding base pairs what happens to the DNA   it reforms;2 strands twist into helix  
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What results from DNA replication   2 identical strands  
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What is the name of the process where DNA copies itself?   interphase  
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Name the three parts of a DNA nucleotide   phosphate groups, deoxyribose sugar, nitrogen bases  
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What happens during DNA replication?   chromosomes double  
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When does DNA replication occur and what stage of this?   mitosis, interphase(S phase)  
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what happens to the Diploid number when Mitosis occurs?   2n to 4n  
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What two pieces of a nubleotide alternate as the backbone of DNA?   Phosphate groups and deoxyribose  
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Of what are the DNA rungs comprised?   nitrogen bases  
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What is produced from replication?   2 identical strands  
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Which nitrogen bases are pyrimidine?   thymine, cytosine, and uracil  
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Which nitrogen bases are purine?   adenine and guanine  
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What are the three types of RNA?   messenger RNA, Ribosomal, and transfer  
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What is the function of mRNA?   carry instructions  
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What is the function of ribosomal rna   combines with proteins  
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What is the function of transfer RNA   brings amino acids to ribosome  
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Where does mRNA perform its function(how)?   it carries instructions from DNA to the ribosome  
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Why does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins?   to make up ribosome  
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What are the two stages of protein synthesis?   transcription and translation  
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Where does transcription occur?   in the nucleus  
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Where does translation occur?   in the ribosome  
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What happens during transcription?   mRNA retrieves DNA message to make proteins  
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what happens during translation?    
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What does RNA stand for?   ribonucleic acid  
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What type or molecule is RNA and what is it made of?   organic molecule-made of carbon  
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What type of macromolecule is RNA?   nucleic acid  
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That are the three types of RNA?   transfer, messenger and ribosomal  
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What is different about the structure of DNA vs. the structure of RNA?   DNA is double-stranded; RNA is a single strand  
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What is different about the type of sugar in DNA and RNA?   DNA has deoxyribose sugar, RNA has ribose sugar  
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What is different about the nitrogen bases in DNA versus RNA?   Uracil replaces thymine in RNA  
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What is different between DNA and RNA/size?   DNA is a very large molecule, RNA is a small molecule  
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What is produced from DNA during transcription.   mRNA  
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Where does transcription?   mucleus  
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What are the three steps to transcription?   DNA untwists, DNA unzips, and mRNA codons line up  
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What is a codon   3 nitrogen bases on mRNA  
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If there are 9 nitrogen bases in a DNA strand, how many codons are there?   3  
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RNA has what instead of thymine?   uracil  
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What molecule provides instructions to make proteins   tRNA  
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What type of RNA receives a copy of the instructions to make proteins?   mRNA  
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What base replaces thymine in RNA?   Uracil  
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What is the mRNA base for the DNA base adenine?   uracil  
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What is translation   conversion of the message (mRNA code)  
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Translation converts a message into what?   a protein  
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Where does translation occur?   in the ribosome  
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What is a polypeptide?   a chain of amino acids  
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What happens during translation?   mRNA arrives at ribosome, tRNA picks up AA and delivers it to the ribosome  
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What are the three types of RNA?   ribosomal, messenger and transfer  
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When the anticodon for tRNA arrives at the ribosome, what does tRNA deliver   amino acids  
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What is always the start codon   aug  
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What are the jobs or RNA polymerase?   unzips DNA  
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Every protein in the body starts with what?   AUG  
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What does transfer RNA transfer?   amino acids  
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What does the mRNA attach to?   ribosome  
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Where does translation begin?   at AUG start codon  
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tRNA anticodons match to what ?   mRNA codons  
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Why does tRNA carry amino acids   to build proteins  
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What does the ribosome join during translation?   amino acids  
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What happens to the tRNA during translation?   it breaks away  
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During translation, the ribosome does what after joining amino acids?   moves along mRNA and continues to bind amino acids  
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What codon completes the polypeptide?   the STOP codon  
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What process produces four genetically different cells?   meiosis  
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List the three parts of a DNA nucleotide?   deoxyribose, nitrogen bases, and phostphate groupds  
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Which RNA;s are involved in protein synthesis?   tRNA and mRna  
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What are the two products of photosynthesis?   oxygen and high energy sugars  
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How many codons are needed for three amino acids?   3  
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Cells of eukaryotes perform certain functions because of gene regulation. What is this called?   cell spcialization  
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what is the building block of a starch?   simple sugar  
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What are the building blocks or RNA?   ribose sugar, nitrogen bases, and phophate groups  
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What type of cell lacks a nucleus?   prokaryote  
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If a parent cell has 8 chromosomes, how many will its daughter cells contain after mitosis?   4  
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What process copies DNA?   DNA replication  
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What sugar does RNA contain   ribose  
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What do genes contain instructions to make?   proteins  
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The cell uses information from mRNA to make proteins during what stage?   transcription  
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Why can an amino acid be specified by more than one codon?   more codons that amino acids  
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What is a mutation involving as single nucleotide called?   point mutation  
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Which type of mutation is never a frameshift?   single substitution  
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What is produced from transcription?   mRNA?  
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What base does RNA contain that is missing in DNA?   uracil  
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What principle states that genes for different traits separate without influencing each other   independent assortment  
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Which structure serves as the cell's boundary from the environment?   membrane  
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What is the start sie for RNA polymerase called?   Promoter  
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What has one allele of each gene?   gametes  
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If a DNA strand has the following bases: GCATTA, what would it produce after replication?   CGTAAT  
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