Intro to human genome

Question 1

how do strands of dna pair up

Answer 1

antiparallel fashion

Question 2

what direction is dna replicated

Answer 2

5>3 direction

Question 3

bases

Answer 3

ACTG

Question 4

bases in RNA

Answer 4

ACGU

Question 5

backbone in DNA

Answer 5

2-deoxyribose

Question 6

backbone in RNA

Answer 6

ribose

Question 7

what is information in dna held in

Answer 7

sequence of bases

Question 8

what are the sequence of bases held in

Answer 8

sugar phosphate backbone

Question 9

what does a DNA stran associate with

Answer 9

proteins and is wound into a structure called a chromosome

Question 10

when does dna replication occur

Answer 10

s phase

Question 11

products of mitosis

Answer 11

two identical diploid daughter cells

Question 12

what occurs in meiosis

Answer 12

one idploid parent cell becomes 4 haploid daughter cells

Question 13

difference in RNA

Answer 13

single stranded
ribose backbone
uracil

Question 14

how does dna become mrna thwn a protein

Answer 14

transcription and splicing

Question 15

what determines the amount of protein porduced

Answer 15

rate of transcription
rate of splicing
half life of mrna
rate of processing of polyp

Question 16

transcription pathway

Answer 16

na > pre mrna > mrna.. translated to protein

Question 17

polymorphism

Answer 17

any variation in the human genome that has a population frequency greater than 1% or
any variation in human genome that does not cause a disease in its own right but may predispose to a common disease

Question 18

what happens when pre mrna is spliced to mrna

Answer 18

removal of introns