Transcription & RNA Processing

Question 1

What is the site of protein synthesis?

Answer 1

Ribosomes

Question 2

What do mRNA molecules do?

Answer 2

They carry information from the DNA to the ribosome

Question 3

What does mRNA stand for?

Answer 3

Messenger RNA

Question 4

What does tRNA stand for?

Answer 4

Transfer RNA

Question 5

What does tRNA do?

Answer 5

It binds specific amino acids and have anti-codon sequences that base pair with mRNA

Question 6

What is rRNA?

Answer 6

Functional building blocks of ribosomes

Question 7

What is transcription?

Answer 7

The process where DNA code is copied to RNA

Question 8

What direction does the sense strand run?

Answer 8

5 to 3 prime

Question 9

Is the sense strand coding or non-coding?

Answer 9

Coding

Question 10

Is the sense strand the template or nom-template strand?

Answer 10

Non-template

Question 11

What info does the sense strand contain?

Answer 11

Codon info

Question 12

What enzyme-regulated modifications does mRNA transcript undergo?

Answer 12

Addition of poly-A tail
Addition of GTP cap

Question 13

What do Introns do?

Answer 13

Interrupts the coding sequence.

Question 14

What is not found in fictional mRNA?

Answer 14

Introns

Question 15

What process removes introns?

Answer 15

Alternative splicing

Question 16

What are exons?

Answer 16

Region of gene present in final function

Question 17

What do the exons do?

Answer 17

Constitute mRNA and are translated into protein. Codes directly for amino acids.

Question 18

Where does DNA replication take place?

Answer 18

Nucleus

Question 19

Where does RNA transcription take place?

Answer 19

Nucleus