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Protein Synthesis
scientists, process, and genetic code
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Biology
9th Grade
04/08/2009

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Swiss biochemist that researched the chemical makeup of the cell nuclei in 1868
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Friedrich Miesher
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year when scientists came up with the name ___________ for the "something else" in the nucleus
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1890's; deoxyribonuclei acid (DNA)
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proposed hereditary material is located in chromosomes; year
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Walter Sutton; 1902
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's supported Sutton's chromosome theory of heredity; year
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Thomas Morgan; 1910
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british bacteriologist that works with a bacterium and composed the "unknown" principle. (turned harmless strain into virulent train of bacteria); year
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Frederick Griffith; 1928
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worked with bacteriophages and composed that genes were made of DNA; year
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Martha Chase and Alfred Hershey; 1952
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1940's
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scientists figured out DNA consists of long strands of nucleotides
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American biochemist that studied the four nitrogenous bases; year
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Erwin Chargaff; 1950's
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________always equals the same amount of thymine
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adenine
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year that scientists found differences in the size of adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine's bases
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1950's
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DNA that has two rings or loops in their structures
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purines
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DNA bases that only have one ring or loop
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pyrimidines
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scientists that used X-ray crystallography to show photographs of DNA, proved that it was a double helix
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Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
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two scientists that worked together using wire modles and info from Franklin and Wilkins to prove the final picture of DNA's structure; year
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Francis Crick and James Warson; 1953
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established the connection between genes and enzymes in their work with bread mold or Neurospora; year; called their hypothesis the ?????
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Beadle and Tatum;1941; gene-one enzyme
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Monomer units for protein is an _________ ____.
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amino acid
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the process of DNA making copies of itself; occurs during.....
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replication; interphase
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each single strand of parent DNA serves as a _________
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template
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new DNA strands are made from.....
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free-floating nucleotides
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the actual production of proteins occurs in the.....
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cytoplasm on ribosomes
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the instructions for protein synthesis is transfered from the ______ on the _____ to the ribosome by the _______.
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genes; dna; mRNA
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carries the coded instructions for protein synthesis from the DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome in the cytoplasm
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mRNA
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brings the amino acids to the to the ribosome in the correct order so they can be built into the new protein
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tRNA
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makes up the structure of the ribosome
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rRNA
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the production of RNA is called ???
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transcription
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the process of transferring information from a strand of DNA to the stand of RNA
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transcription
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a codon is how many bases long?
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3
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how many different combinations of codons can the four different bases have?
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64
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the universal start codon
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AUG
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the three universal stop codons
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UAA, UAG, UGA
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