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They discovered DNA’s structure in A 100
Who are Watson and Crick? A 100
This scientist produced the famous photo 51 Image? A 200
Who is Rosalind Franklin? A 200
This scientist discovered DNA’s existence in the nucleus. A 300
Who is Friedrich Miescher? A 300
This scientist discovered that the % of adenine was equal to the % of thymine. A 400
Who was Erwin Chargaff? A 400
This scientist worked with DNA X-ray diffraction besides Rosalind Franklin. A 500
Who was Maurice Wilkins? A 500
This is the meaning of the word replication. B 100
What is duplication or copying.? B 100
This is the purpose of replication in cells. B 200
What is produce copies of DNA for the daughter cells that result from cell division? B 200
What enzyme breaks the hydrogen bonds so that DNA strands can separate? B 300
What is helicase? B 300
This enzyme is necessary for bonding nucleotides and “proof-reading” of newly produced DNA strands. B 400
What is DNA polymerase? B 400
This strand of DNA that is formed in Okazaki fragments. B 500
What is the lagging strand (or 3’ – 5’ strand)? B 500
This is the number of molecular strands in RNA. C 100
What is one strand per molecule? C 100
This is the nitrogenous base that replaces DNA’s Thymine. C 200
What is uracil? C 200
This form of RNA contain anticodons. C 300
What is transfer RNA? C 300
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The two major substances that make up a ribosome. C 400
What are Protein and rRNA? C 400
The components of an RNA nucelotide. C 500
What are phosphate group, ribose sugar and nitrogen base? C 500
This is produced during transcription. D 100
What is RNA? D 100
This is the location of the transcription process in the cell. D 200
What is the nucleus? D 200
This enzyme is necessary for the bonding of RNA nucleotides during transcription. D 300
What is RNA polymerase? D 300
Which portion of the DNA coding strand signals the end of transcription? D 400
What is the terminator region or terminator signal? D 400
Where on the DNA coding strand does RNA polymerase go at the start of transcription? D 500
What is the promoter region? D 500
This is the location of translation. E 100
What is the cytoplasm? E 100
It is the start codon. E 200
What is AUG? E 200
The number of ribosome subunits present during translation. E 300
What are two? E 300
These are the nucleic acids involved in translation. E 400
What are mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA? E 400
This is the amino acid coded by the start codon? E 500
What is methionine? E 500
This form of radiation was used to produce the image in the picture below. F 100
What is X-Ray radiation? F 100
This is the type of chemical bond found between the two strands of the double helix--- between the nitrogenous bases. F 200
What is the hydrogen bond? F 200
These sections are edited out of mRNA during processing. F 300
What are introns? F 300
The major portion of the translation process in which the chain of amino acids grows as the ribosome moves along the mRNA. F 400
What is elongation? F 400
This adjective is used to describe the DNA strands in the double helix, because one strand runs in the 5’ to 3’ direction, while the other runs from the 3’ to 5’ direction. F 500
What is antiparallel ? F 500
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This is the location of the ribosomes in a cell, where proteins to be exported are produced. Click on screen to continue
They are attached to the endoplasmic reticulum. (They are modified and exported from the cell via the cytomembrane system.) Click on screen to continue
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