Chapter 10 Word Scramble
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Description | Title |
Shape of DNA | Double Helix |
Scientists credited for the discovery of the structure of DNA | Watson and Crick |
The person who took X-Ray diffraction photographs of DNA crystals | Rosalind Franklin |
Adenine and guanine | Purines |
Thymine and cytosine | Pyrimidines |
American biochemist who observed that the percentage of adenine equals the percentage of thymine, and the percentage of cytosine equals that of the guanine in the DNA of a variety of organisms | Erwin Chargaff |
Deoxyribonucleic Acid | DNA |
Purine compatible with thymine | Adenine |
Purine compatible with cytosine | Guanine |
Pyrimidine compatible with adenine | Thymine |
Pyrimidine compatible with guanine | Cytosine |
Process of copying DNA | Replication |
Made up of 3 parts: sugar (deoxyribose) , phosphate (phosphorous) and one of four nitrogen containing bases (A, G, T, C) | DNA Nucleotide |
Enzymes that bind to the separated chains of DNA | DNA Polymerase |
The result of a change in the nucleotide. (One error in every 10,000 paired nucleotides) | Mutation |
Enzymes repair errors and bring the error rate down to 1 per 1 billion nucleotides | Proofreading |
A correlation between a nucleotide sequence and an amino acid sequence | Genetic Code |
Cytosol | Cytoplasm |
The process by which genetic information is copied from DNA to RNA | Transcription |
mRNA | Messenger RNA |
tRNA | Transfer RNA |
rRNA | Ribosomal RNA |
The production of proteins | Protein Synthesis |
There are 20... | Amino Acids |
The process of assembling polypeptides from information encoded in mRNA | Translation |
The loop opposite of the site of amino acid attachment bears a sequence of three nucleotides called an... | Anticodon |
DNA is made up of repeating subunits of | Nucleotides |
Has two rings of carbon | Purines |
Has one ring of carbon | Pyrimidines |
The chains of a hydrogen bond are separated by enzymes called | Helicases |
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