JEOPARDY #1 DNA and RNA Chapter 12 S2C06 Jeopardy Review http://faculty.uca.edu/~johnc/mbi1440.htm

DNA Structure Vocab Replication Transcription Translation 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

DNA Structure 100 Tell one experiment you learned about that helped scientists learn about the nature of DNA A: What is Griffith (Pneumonia/rats) Avery (Pneumonia/rats/digestive enzymes) Hershey - Chase (radioactive bacteriophages) Franklin- Xray diffraction ? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

DNA Structure 200 Name the 2 kinds of molecules that make up the backbone of the DNA molecule. A: What are deoxyribose sugars and phosphates? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

DNA Structure 300 Name the nitrogen bases used to make the DNA code A: What are Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

DNA Structure 400 Nitrogen bases made with 2 rings (like A and G) A G A: What are purines ? G S2C06 Jeopardy Review

DNA Structure 500 What are Chargaff’s Rules ? A: What is A = T and G = C ? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Vocabulary 100 Subunits used to make DNA A: What are nucleotides ? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Vocabulary 200 Process in which one strain of bacteria is changed by absorbing DNA from another strain of bacteria A: What is transformation? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Vocabulary 300 A virus that infects bacteria A: What is a bacteriophage ? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Vocabulary 400 Form of DNA that is seen in the nucleus of non-dividing cells which is more spread out so cells can read the code A: What is chromatin ? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Vocabulary 500 3 consecutive nucleotide bases on an m-RNA molecule that code for a specific amino acid A: What is a codon? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Main enzyme that joins nucleotides to make a DNA molecule Replication 100 Main enzyme that joins nucleotides to make a DNA molecule A: What is DNA Polymerase? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Site where separation of strands and replication occurs A: What is a replication fork ? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Give the complementary DNA code for: A T G G C T Replication 300 Give the complementary DNA code for: A T G G C T A: What is: T A C C G A ? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Tell something else DNA polymerase does besides join nucleotides Replication 400 Tell something else DNA polymerase does besides join nucleotides A: What is proofreads new strand to check for errors? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

How is replication in prokaryotes different from eukaryotes? A: What is prokaryotes- starts in one spot and goes both directions around circle Eukaryotes- starts in hundreds of places and moves in opposite directions along strand? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Transcription 100 Name the 3 kinds of RNA produced by transcription A: What are messenger-RNA, transfer-RNA, and ribosomal-RNA? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Transcription 200 Name the nitrogen base used in transcription that is NOT used in replication A: What is uracil? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Transcription 300 Regions on the DNA where RNA polymerase binds to start transcription A: What are promoters? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Transcription 400 Sequences of DNA that are cut out of the corresponding RNA molecule while it is still in the nucleus A: What are introns ? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Transcription 500 Give the RNA message for this piece of DNA: A T G G C T A: What is: U A C C G A ? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Subunits that are joined together to make proteins Translation 100 Subunits that are joined together to make proteins A: What are amino acids? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Place in cell where proteins are assembled Translation 200 Place in cell where proteins are assembled A: What is on the ribosomes? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

would you find an ANTICODON? Translation 300 On which kind of RNA would you find an ANTICODON? A: What is transfer-RNA or T-RNA? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Another name for translation A: What is protein synthesis? S2C06 Jeopardy Review

Translation 500 A: What is leucine? Which amino acid Images modified from: Pearson Education Inc, publishing as Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved Translation 500 THREONINE Which amino acid will be added next? VALINE METHIONINE-ALANINE-LYSINE-? LEUCINE A: What is leucine? S2C06 Jeopardy Review