RNA Flashcards
How do we get to DNA to an actual model protein?
Transcription and Translation
RNA reads and codes for our genes…
Codons
What does mRNA do ?
copies the genetic instructions from DNA in the nucleus and carries the instructions to the cytoplasm.
What does tRNA do?
brings amino acids to ribosomes, where they are joined together to form proteins.
RNA contains sugar.
TRUE
RNA contains the nitrogen base uracil (U) instead of thymine.
TRUE
RNA consists of one nucleotide chain instead of two
TRUE
What’s rRNA?
helps form ribosomes, the organelle where proteins are assembled.
Transcription
The makes DNA a strand of mRNA.
How many different codons do we have?
61 but 64 including the 3 stop signal codons.
These relationships between mRNA codons and amino acids
genetic code
What does mRNA and tRNA binds to?
a structure called ribosomes.
tRNA has a anti-condon
TRUE
Ribosomes get together with tRNA?
TRUE
amino acids are brought to the ribosome by tRNA.
TRUE