Codons And Anticodons Flashcards

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1
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Codon is a sequence of _ found in mRNA strand…

A

Three bases

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2
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Codon sequence of three bases on mRNA strand that pair up with _ on tRNA strand

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Three bases (anticodon)

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3
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A codon is sequence of three bases on mRNA and three bases on tRNA to code for a specific _

A

Amino acid

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4
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Most of 64 codons in human dna code for _

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20 types of amino acids

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5
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Each amino acid represented by _

A

Single letter abbreviation

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6
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The 20 amino acids include

A

Start codon

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7
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Stop codons don’t code for amino acids, instead they signal _

A

Halt to protein-making

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8
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Adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), thymine (T) are the _

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Bases found in codons

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9
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Adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), thymine (T) combine in different ways to produce

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Specific amino acids

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10
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ATG

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Methionine

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11
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TTT

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Phenylalanine (F)

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12
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TTG

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Tryptophan (W)

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13
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CCA

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Proline

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14
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CCC

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Proline

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15
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TAG

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Stop codon

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16
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Since 1990, human genome project set out to read

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Entire sequence of human genome

17
Q

Read entire sequence of human genome and map _ of all its genes (2)

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Location

Function

18
Q

Full sequence of about 3 billion base pairs was complete in _

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2003

19
Q

Only _ percent of genes identified in 2003

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92

20
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By _ all genes had been identified

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2022