Exam 4 - Transcription, Translation, Cell Division Flashcards
What are nucleic acids?
Long-chain polymers made up of nucleotide monomers (building blocks)
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What is a gene?
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A specific segment of DNA. Holds the instructions to build a protien.
True of false? DNA can leave a nucleus
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False
DNA is too big to. leave a nucleus. mRNA is small enough to leave though
What does rRNA do?
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Makes up the actual ribosome
rRNA= ribosome RNA
Describe Transcription
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Process of protein synthesis where RNA polymerase carefully copies the DNA’s code into mRNA, which travels out of the nucleus to deliver its message to ribosome
What does tRNA do?
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It brings amino acids to the ribosome and matches its anticodon to mRNA’s codons
Describe Translation
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Ribosome builds proteins, one amino acid at a time with tRNA, in the cytoplasm by reading off of a “working copy” (mRNA)
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What is the RNA polymerase’s job?
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unzip the DNA and carefully copy the DNA’s code into mRNA
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What does each letter stand for in DNA?
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Deoxribonucleic Acid
DNA is missing the oxygen on its ribose sugar
Deoxyribose is a sugar. So is a Ribose but that is found in RNA with an oxygen on it
What is mRNA?
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mRNA is the working copy of the DNA strand that gets sent to ribosomes to make proteins.
Stands for messenger RNA
What base pairs go together?
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A and T go together (DNA)
G and C go together (DNA)
AT GC 😁
A and U together in RNA
remember the band ACDC (but that is not the exact answer) :)
What is DNA?
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A double-helix structure that stores genetic instructions/code.
spiral staircase with boxes
Name the bases found in DNA
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Cytosine, Thymine, Adenine and Guanine
Uracil (U) is only found in RNA and replaces Thymine. A - U (RNA), A - T (DNA)
What does transfer RNA do?
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It carries amino acids to the ribosome and uses its anticodon side to match with the mRNA’s codon
tRNA = Transfer RNA
What are some key differences between DNA and RNA?
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- DNA is double-stranded; RNA is single-stranded
- DNA is DE-OXY, so it is missing one oxygen
- while DNA conatins A, T, G, and C, RNA contians U instead of T
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What does trna stand for?
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transfer RNA
What are every 3 bases in mRNA called?
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Codon, codes for 1 amino acid.
Which bases are found in RNA strands
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Cytosine, Uracil, Guanine and Adenine
RNA is missing Thymine! Only DNA has Thymine
What is a monomer?
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Building blocks
what types of RNA are used during Translation
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mRNA (transcript that ribosome reads from)
rRNA (actual structure of ribosome)
tRNA (carries amino acids over and matches anticodon to mRNA’s codon)
what are protiens made of?
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Amino acids
What happens during the G1 Phase?
The cell grows, carries out normal functions, and prepares to replicate DNA
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What is the 1st phase of the cell cycle?
G1 Phase
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What happens during the S Phase?
DNA is replicated
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What is Mitosis?
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The creation of 2 identical, somatic, dipolid daughter cells.
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what is nonsense mutation?
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change in dna sequence that changes the amino acid coding codon into a STOP
this is bad remember nonsense = NO or STOP
This cuts the protein short