Study Guide (DNA and RNA) #2

Question 1

gene consist of …

Answer 1

hundreds or thousands of nucleotide bases

Question 2

information in DNA ….

Answer 2

specifies the synthesis of proteins

Question 3

archibald garrod

Answer 3

noted the gene-protein link in “in-born errors of metabolism

Question 4

codons

Answer 4

genetic instructiosn are written in three-base words

Question 5

phenotype

Answer 5

an organism’s expressed traits (what it looks like make up its…

Question 6

to make a protein

Answer 6

DNA information is first transcribed into RNA

Question 7

DNA language

Answer 7

consists of a linear sequence of nucleotide bases

Question 8

genotype

Answer 8

an organism’s genetic makeup

Question 9

phenotype is expressed…

Answer 9

via structural prtoeins, enzymes, and other proteins

Question 10

tranlsation

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making a polypeptide according to an RNA message

Question 11

base seuqnce of Rna is….

Answer 11

complementary to the DNA from which it is transcribed

Question 12

genotype is….

Answer 12

the inheritable information encoded in DNA

Question 13

each codon in DNA and RNA

Answer 13

specifies a certain amino acid in a polypeptide

Question 14

translation is…

Answer 14

conerstion of Rna message into polypeptide

Question 15

transcription

Answer 15

transfer of information from DNA into an RNA molecule

Question 16

gene

Answer 16

specifies how to build one polypeptide

Question 17

beadle and tatum

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using bread mold, they showed that a gene codes for an enzyme