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| Cell--> Nucleus--> ________--> DNA--> genes. Fill in the blank. |
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| What are the coded instructions for traits? |
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| What is deoxyribonucleic acid? |
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| deoxyribose (sugar), phosphate, adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine |
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| What are the two types of nitrogen bases? |
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| purines (double ringed) and pyrimidnes (single-ringed) |
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| What two nitrogen bases are purines? |
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| What two nitrogen bases are pyrimidnes? |
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| Who are the two scientists who discovered the shape of DNA? |
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| What is the shape of DNA? |
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| In DNA, what are the sides of the ladder made of? |
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| alternating phosphates and sugar |
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| In DNA, what holds the sides of the ladder that is made of alternating phosp |
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| The rungs of the ladder in DNA is made of what? |
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| What are the three parts of a nucleotide? |
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| phosphate group, deoxyribose (sugar), and nitrogen base |
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| DNA is copied during interphase prior to mitosis and meiosis. It unzips and makes a copy of itself. |
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| What does DNA Replication produce? |
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| two strands each with one new strand and one original strand |
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| a permanent change in the DNA sequence |
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| What does point mutation involve? |
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| What are the characteristics of RNA? |
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| single stranded, ribose, adenine uracil, guanine, and cytosine |
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| What are the three types of RNA? |
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| messenger, ribosomal, and transfer |
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| What kind of RNA carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the cytoplasm? |
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| What kind of RNA binds to mRNA and uses its information to assemble amino acids? |
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| What kind of RNA delivers amino acids to the ribosome to be assembled into proteins? |
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| What are the three flows of genetic information? |
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| Is DNA transcription or translation? |
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| Is RNA transcription or translation? |
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| the first step in protein synthesis |
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| What happens during transcription? |
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| copy of DNA is made from part of the DNA strand (DNA-->mRNA) |
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| What is formed in the nucleus and functions as a blueprint of the genetic code during transcription? |
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| second step in the protein synthesis |
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| What happens during translation? |
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| mRNA code is changed to another language that can be understood by the ribosome |
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| What uses the information from mRNA to produce proteins during translation? |
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| group of three bases in mRNA that codes for one amino acid |
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| tRNA is a three part nucleotide segment that is the exact complement of one mRNA codon |
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| What is protein synthesis? |
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| genes contain instructions for making proteins |
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| What is one of the five steps of protein synthesis? |
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| What is one of the five steps of protein synthesis? |
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| mRNA brings instructions to cytoplasm |
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| What is one of the five steps of protein synthesis? |
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| rRNA bonds to mRNA (codon-->anticodon) |
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| What is one of the five steps of protein synthesis? |
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| rRNA uses the instructions to assemble amino acids |
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| What is one of the five steps of protein synthesis? |
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| tRNA delivers amino acids to ribosome to make a protein |
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| What is composed of 20 different amino acids? |
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| What do proteins make that help to carry out reactions within the cell? |
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