4.4 Study Guide Flashcards by Britton Frost | Brainscape

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What is translation?

A

The process of turning RNA into a protien

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What is a codon?

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A triplet that codes for one amino acid

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Is code redundant?

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Yes, multiple codons for each amino acid.

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What is mRNA

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messenger that contains code for amino acid sequence

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What is tRNA

A

transferred amino acids from cytoplasm to ribosome

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What is rRNA

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Facilitates matching between tRNA and mRNA.

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What is tRNA synthase

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puts tRNA and amino acids together

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What is the A site

A

tRNA with amino acid that binds to a codon

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P site

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holds tRNA with growing polypeptide chain

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E site

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tRNA exits the ribosome without amino acid

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What is a Mutation

A

change in the DNA sequence

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Point mutation

A

substitution of single base

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Missense Mutation

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change in one amino acid

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Nonsense Mutation

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prematurely stops translation

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Frame shift Mutation

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shift in reading frame

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deletion

A

deleting bases

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insersion

A

adding bases