Unit #1 also??: DNA

Question 1

What does DNA stand for?

Answer 1

Deoxyribonucleic acid

Question 2

What are the monomers of DNA?

Answer 2

nucleotides

Question 3

What are the 4 nitrogen bases in DNA?

Answer 3

adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine

Question 4

What are the four nitrogen bases in RNA?

Answer 4

adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil

Question 5

What is another name for point mutations

Answer 5

gene mutations

Question 6

What are the different types of substitutions?

Answer 6

missense, nonsense, silent

Question 7

What are pyrimidines?

Answer 7

a type of nitrogenous base that has two rings, adenine and guanine

Question 8

What are the backbone of DNA?

Answer 8

phosphates and deoxyribose

Question 9

What enzyme “unzips” DNA in DNA replication

Answer 9

DNA helicase

Question 10

what is rRNA?

Answer 10

it translates the mRNA into an amino acid chain (protein)

Question 11

What enzyme is responsible for transcription?

Answer 11

RNA polymerase

Question 12

A series of 3 mRNA nitrogen bases that contains the information needed to make proteins are called what?

Answer 12

codon

Question 13

What are the 3 stop codons?

Answer 13

UAA, UAG, UGA

Question 14

What does the word “mutation” mean?

Answer 14

to change - a change in genetic material

Question 15

What are the 3 examples of gene (point) mutations?

Answer 15

deletion, substitution, insertion