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Nucleic Acids And Pr Synthesis Flashcards

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Various types of mutations

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Substitution

Deletion

Insertion

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Stop codons

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UAA UAG UGA

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Start codon

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AUG (methionine)

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The original RNA molecule before its modified is called

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Primary transcript

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Anticodon:

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Sequence of 3 unpaired bases on tRNA that binds with codon on mRNA

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The process of RNA modification is called

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RNA processing

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❗️

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DNA polymerase can only copy in 5 to 3 directions

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Codon

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Sequence of 3 bases on an mRNA that codes for specific amino acid or stop signal

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