$200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 DNA, mRNA, or tRNA? MAKIN’ PROTEIN THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE CRACKING THE CODE
The nucleic acid with a double helix shape. Category 1: $100: A
What is DNA? Category 1: $100: Q
The copy of the genetic code that leaves the nucleus. Category 1: $200: A
What is mRNA? Category 1: $200: Q
The nucleic acid that is made by replication. Category 1: $300: A
What is DNA? Category 1: $300: Q
The nucleic acid that brings amino acids to the ribosomes. Category 1: $400: A
What is tRNA? Category 1: $400: Q
Category 1: $500: A The nucleic acid being made in this diagram.
What is mRNA? Category 1: $500: Q
The building blocks of protein. Category 2: $100: A
What are amino acids? Category 2: $100: Q
Of replication, transcription, or translation, the process that makes protein. Category 2: $200: A
What is translation? Category 2: $200: Q
The organelle where protein synthesis takes place. Category 2: $300: A
What is a ribosome? Category 2: $300: Q
A three-letter sequence of nitrogen bases, such as CAU, that codes for an amino acid. Category 2: $400: A
What is a codon? Category 2: $400: Q
The three-letter sequence on tRNA that matches a three-letter sequence on mRNA. Category 2: $500: A
What is an anticodon? Category 2: $500: Q
Of sugars, phosphates, or nitrogen bases, the parts of nucleic acids that carry the genetic code. Category 3: $100: A
What are nitrogen bases? Category 3: $100: Q
The copying of the DNA code to mRNA. Category 3: $200: A
What is transcription? Category 3: $200: Q
The nitrogen base that occurs in DNA but not in RNA. Category 3: $300: A
What is thymine? Category 3: $300: Q
Category 3: $400: A The type of mutation shown in the diagram.
Category 3: $400: Q What is substitution?
Three main differences between DNA and RNA. Category 3: $500: A
What are… shape, sugars, nitrogen bases, and location? Category 3: $500: Q
The nitrogen base pairs normally found in DNA. Category 4: $100: A
What are A-T and C-G? Category 4: $100: Q
The nitrogen base pairs normally found in RNA. Category 4: $200: A
What are A-U and C-G? Category 4: $200: Q
The three-letter sequence that tells a cell to start making protein. Category 4: $300: A
What is AUG? Category 4: $300: Q
The nitrogen bases that would be on the other half of this DNA molecule, from top to bottom. Category 4: $400: A
What are TAGCAG? Category 4: $400: Q
Category 4: $500: A The five different nitrogen bases found in nucleic acids.
Category 4: $500: Q What are adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and uracil?