Central Dogma Flashcards

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1
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It is a thread-like body that carries genes in linear order.

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Chromosome

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2
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It is an area of the chromosome where traits are found.

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Loci

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3
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It is responsible for the coiling of DNA.

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Histones

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4
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They are double-stranded and anti-parallel strands.

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DNA

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5
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Parts of Nucleotide (3)

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Nitrogenous bases, Pentose Sugar, Phospate

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6
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Types of Nitrogenous bases (5)

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Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Uracil

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7
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Nitrogenous Bases A and G are considered as?

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Purine

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8
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Nitrogenous Bases C and T are considered as?

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Pyrimidine

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9
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Enzymes needed in DNA Replication (6)

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Topoisomerase, Helicase, Primase, DNA Polymerase, Exonuclease, Ligase

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10
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This is responsible for the unwinding of DNA

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Topoisomerase

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This is responsible for the unzipping of DNA which leads to the formation of replication fork.

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Helicase

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This is responsible for the adding of primer to ready DNA.

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Primase

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13
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This is responsible for the elongation of DNA. It synthesizes the leading strand and supplies the complementary strand.

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DNA Polymerase

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14
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This is responsible for the proofreading of the strands.

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Exonuclease

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15
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This is responsible for the joining of okazaki fragments.

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Ligase

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16
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These are DNA strands that either did not get its complement or it got the wrong complement.

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Okazaki Fragments

17
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Nitrogenous Bases of the RNA. (4)

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Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Uracil

18
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Phases of DNA to RNA (3)

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Initiation, Elongation, Termination

19
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This is the region that only contains T A T A traits.

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TATA Box

20
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This is responsible for the pairing of nucleotides.

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RNA Polymerase

21
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True or False? RNA without Introns are Pre-mature RNA.

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False! RNA without Introns are Mature RNA.

22
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This RNA carries instruction from DNA to cytoplasm

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mRNA

23
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This RNA delivers amino acids to ribosomes.

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tRNA

24
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This RNA forges the proteins.

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rRNA

25
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This is a part of the cell where DNA replication takes place.

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Nucleus

26
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This is a part of the cell where DNA to RNA translation takes place.

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Cytoplasm.

27
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This is the codon that indicates the start.

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AUG

28
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These are known as the “Stop Codons”. (3)

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UAA, UAG, UGA

29
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This is the chain of amino acids.

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Polypeptide Chain

30
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They discovered the DNA structure. (2)

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James Watson and Francis Chadwick/Crick

31
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It is the process that aims to transfer information from a portion of DNA molecule into RNA molecule through the enzyme RNA polymerase.

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