DNA Replication and Protein Synthesis Flashcards
Helicase
Unzips
Ligase
Glues fragments together
What is RNA primer replaced with
DNA polymerase replaces it with DNA
What do you call lagging strand pieces
Okazaki fragments
In what direction can DNA polymerase travel in
In the 5 to 3 direction
Which strand becomes the lagging strand
The one going in the 3 to 5 direction (on top of the one going in the 5 to 3 direction)
What does topoisomerase do?
Stop supercoiling from happening
What do single-stranded-binding proteins do?
Prevent separated strands of DNA from rebinding together
What happens first transcription or translation
transcription
What is transcription
Rewriting DNA bases as RNA bases using mRNA
What is translation
mRNA is used to build a protein.
Where are anticodos and where are codons?
Anticodons are on the tRNA and codons are on the mRNA (groups of three bases).
