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What phrase describes the flow of information from DNA to RNA to Protein?

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Central Dogma of Biology

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What nucleic acid is double-stranded and consists of phosphate, 4 nitrogenous bases (A, T, C, G), and deoxyribose sugar?

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DNA

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What nucleic acid is single-stranded and consists of phosphate, 4 nitrogenous bases (A, U, C, G), and ribose sugar?

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RNA

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What is a polymer of amino acids (polypeptide) that folds into a structure that has a function and thus gives phenotypes to organisms?

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Protein

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What has 3 parts (phosphate, 5-carbon sugar, nitrogenous base) and is a monomer building block of nucleic acids?

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Nucleotide

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What polymer comes in the form of DNA and RNA and consists of nucleotide monomers, and directly serves as a blueprint for proteins, and thru proteins, serves as a blueprint for all cellular structures and activities?

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Nucleic Acid (Polynucleotide)

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What type of sugar makes up the backbone of nucleic acids?

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5-Carbon Sugar

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Which 5-carbon sugar is one of the 3 parts of a nucleotide, has a 2’-OH, and is used by RNA?

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Ribose

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Which 5-carbon sugar is one of the 3 parts of a nucleotide, has a 2’-H and is used by DNA?

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Deoxyribose

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What molecule is part of the backbone of DNA and RNA, forms phosphodiester bonds, and has the formula PO4?

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Phosphate Group

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What holds together a single, nucleic acid strand?

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Sugar-Phosphate Backbone

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What type of bond holds together the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA and RNA?

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Phosphodiester Bond

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What part of a nucleotide base pairs to another nucleotide?

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Nitrogenous Base

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Which nitrogenous base is found in DNA and RNA, has 2 rings (purine), and forms 2 hydrogen bonds to T-thymine and U-uracil?

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Adenine(A)

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Which nitrogenous base is found in DNA (but not RNA), has 1 ring (pyrimidine, and forms 2 hydrogen bonds to A-adenine?

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Thymine(T)

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Which nitrogenous base is found in DNA and RNA, has 1 ring (pyrimidine), and forms 3 hydrogen bonds to G-guanine?

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Cytosine(C)

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Which nitrogenous base is found in DNA and RNA, has 2 rings (purine), and forms 3 hydrogen bonds to C-cytosine?

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Guanine(G)

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Which nitrogenous base is found in RNA (but not DNA), has 1 ring (pyrimidine), and forms 2 hydrogen bonds with A-adenine?

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Uracil

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What type of nitrogenous base has 2 rings and includes both G and A?

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Purine

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What type of nitrogenous base has 1 ring and includes T, C and U?

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Pyrimidine

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What is the overall shape of DNA?

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DNA Double Helix

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By what mechanism does–

 --DNA serve as a template for its own replication?
 ---DNA serve as a template to make RNA during transcription?
 ---mRNA serve as a template to make polypeptides during translation?
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Complementary Base Pairing

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What type of bond holds together base pairs?

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Hydrogen Bond

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How are the 2 strands of a DNA double helix arranged?

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Antiparallel

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Which end of a DNA or RNA strand has a phosphate?
5'-End
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Which end of a DNA or RNA strand has on OH?
3'-End
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How is the number of strands of DNA described?
Double Stranded
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How is the number of strands of RNA described?
Single Stranded
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By what rule is it known that when calculating the amount of DNA in any living thing: A=T and G=C?
Chargaff's Rule
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What is the process by which DNA is synthesized?
DNA Replication
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When does DNA Replication occur during the eukaryotic cell cycle?
S phase
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What sequence of DNA signals the start of DNA Replication?
Origin of Replication
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What protein is used during DNA replication to add nucleotides to the 3' end of an elongating DNA strand?
DNA Polymerase
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What protein is used during DNA replication to link the Okazaki fragments of the lagging strand?
Ligase
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What strand of DNA is used as a template during DNA replication?
Parent Strand
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Which strand of DNA is synthesized continuously during DNA replication?
Leading Strand
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Which strand of DNA is synthesized as Okazaki fragments during DNA replication?
Lagging Strand
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What are the pieces of DNA made during discontinuous DNA replication of the lagging strand?
Okazaki Fragments
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What is the consequence of DNA replication such that a parent strand becomes one of the 2 strands of both daughter DNA?
Semiconservative DNA Replication
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In what part of the eukaryotic cell does DNA replication, transcription, and ribosomal subunit construction take place?
Nucleus
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What is the process by which DNA is used as a template to make RNA?
Transcription
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What are the 3 steps of transcription?
Initiation, Elongation, Termination
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What DNA sequence signals the start of transcription?
Promoter
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What DNA sequence signals the end of transcription?
Terminator
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What protein uses DNA as a template to make RNA in the process of transcription?
RNA Polymerase
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What type of RNA contains a specific sequence of codons that will be translated into a specific sequence of amino acids?
mRNA
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What is added to the 5' end of a eukaryotic mRNA?
5' cap
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What are the parts of the mRNA that are transcribed from DNA but not translated by ribosomes?
UTR
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What is a three-nucleotide sequence that specifies a particular amino acid or translation stop?
Codon
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What codon is used to begin translation?
Start Codon
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What codon is used to end translation?
Stop Codon
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What is added to the 3' end of a eukaryotic mRNA?
Poly-A Tail
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In what part of all cells does translation take place?
Cytoplasm
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What is the process by which mRNA is used to make polypeptides, which will fold into functional proteins?
Translation
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What is the monomer of polypeptides, which get linked together during translation?
Amino Acid
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What is a polymer of amino acids linked together by peptide bonds?
Polypeptide
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What type of RNA is the translator between the nucleic acid language and the polypeptide language by base pairing to codons of mRNA while also carrying an amino acid?
tRNA
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What three-nucleotide sequence of a tRNA base pairs to an mRNA?
Anticodon
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What cell structure is composed of RNA and protein, and has 2 subunits that were built in the nucleolus, but works in the cytoplasm to synthesize polypeptides/proteins?
Ribosome
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What type of RNA makes up the structure of the ribosome?
rRNA
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What is the bigger half of a ribosome?
Large Ribosomal Subunit
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What is the smaller half of a ribosome?
Small Ribosomal Subunit
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At what site does a tRNA with one amino acid enter a ribosome?
Ribosome A site
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At what site does the ribosome hold the growing polypeptide?
Ribosome P site
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What are the 3 steps of translation?
Initiation, Elongation, Termination
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What are the 3 steps of translation elongation?
Codon recognition, Peptide bond formation, and Translocation
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What is the first step of translation elongation?
Codon Recognition
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What is the second step of translation elongation?
Peptide Bond Formation
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What is the third step of translation elongation?
Translocation
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What structures are involved in translation initiation?
mRNA-start codon(AUG) + tRNA-Met + Small Ribosomal Subunit + Large Ribosomal Subunit
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What structures are involved in translation termination?
mRNA-stop codon + ribosome-A-site + release factor + free polypeptide
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What is the consequence of having multiple codons that code for the same amino acid?
Redundant Genetic Code
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What is the consequence of each codon only coding for a single amino acid?
Unambiguous Genetic Code
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What is a discrete unit of hereditary information consisting of a specific nucleotide sequence in DNA?
Gene

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