Chapter 4-8 Flashcards
What consist of nucelotide?
One Sugar, One Phosphate Group, One Nitrogenous Base
Pyrimidnes (Single Ring)
(C)ytosine & (T)hymine
Purines (Double Ring)
(A)denine & (G)uanine
What are nitrogenous bases united by?
A & T, C & G
Chromatin
DNA material complexed w/ proteins
Sister Chromatids
The parallel filaments of identical DNA
What does ribose replace as sugar?
Deoxyribose
What does uracil replace as a nitrogenous base?
Thymine
What does RNA do?
Interpret DNA code
What is Genetic Code?
System that channels A,T,C,G to code for the amino acid sequence of all proteins
Stop Codons
UAG, UGA, UAA
mRNA
Mirror image of the gene which travels from the nucleus to the cytoplasma
Transcription
Copying genetic instructions from DNA to RNA
Translation
The process that converts the language of nuclotides into the language of amino acids
What is the amino acid sequence of protein determined by?
Nucelotide sequence in DNA
What is RNA polymerse
Enzyme that binds to the DNA and assembles mRNA
What does RNA do?
C binds to G and A binds to U
What are the role of ribosomes in translation?
Translate sequence of nucleotides into the sequence of amino acids
Process of Transcription
Pre-mRNA, Exons, Introns, Alternative Splicing
What do cells synthesize?
Glycogen, Fat, Steroids, Phospholipids. Pigments