Chapter 10: Understanding The Genetic Material

Question 1

Virus that specifically infects and destroys bacteria

Answer 1

Bacteriophage

Question 2

Who identified the basic structure of nucleotide

Answer 2

Levene

Question 3

The process of unzipping, the double helix to separate the strands of the dna

Answer 3

DNA helicase

Question 4

The process of bonding, or putting together of the new nucleotides the work of the enzyme

Answer 4

Dna polymerase

Question 5

This rna CARRIES a copy of the message

Answer 5

Messenger rna or mrna

Question 6

rna that Transports individual amino acids

Answer 6

Trna

Question 7

This rna Makes up the ribosomes

Answer 7

Rrna

Question 8

The process by which genetic information in DNA is copied into an RNA molecule

Answer 8

Transcription

Question 9

This starts when mRNA in the cytoplasm interacts with rRNA and tRNA

Answer 9

Translation

Question 10

A sequence of three nucleotides in mRNA that codes for a specific amino acid

Answer 10

Codon

Question 11

A sequence of three nucleotide basis, that compliments a specific mRNA codon at one and a specific amino acid, that the other end

Answer 11

Anticodon

Question 12

Along chain of amino acids that make up a protein

Answer 12

Polypeptide

Question 13

Refers to a change in the molecular structure of a gene or the physical structure of a chromosome

Answer 13

Mutation