Transferring Information (from DNA to Proteins)

Question 1

What is messenger RNA? (mRNA)

Answer 1

• a family of RNA molecules that carry coding instructions from DNA to the ribosomes that create protein

Question 2

What is triplet hypothesis?

Answer 2

• states that grouping and combinations of 3 nucleotides (codon) code for a single amino acid

Question 3

What is a codon?

Answer 3

• 3 nucleotides

Question 4

What is the start codon? And what does it code for?

Answer 4

• AUG (methionine)

Question 5

What are stop codons?

Answer 5

• UAG
• UAA
• UGA

Question 6

What is the template strand also referred to as?

Answer 6

• antisense strand

Question 7

What is the non-template strand also referred to as?

Answer 7

• sense strand