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Deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA)
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A nucleic acid; the master copy of an organism's information code that contains the instructions used to form all of an organism's enzymes and structural proteins
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Deoxyribose
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DNA's sugar
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Parts of a nucleotide
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Parts of a _________ consist of a phosphate group, a sugar molecule, and a nitrogenous base
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Purine
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Adenine and Guanine are examples of ___________.
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Pyrimidines
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Cytosine and Thymine are examples of __________.
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Hydrogen bonds
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Weak chemical bond formed by the attraction of positively charged hydrogen atoms to other negatively charged atoms.
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Helicase
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Unzips the strand of DNA by breaking the hydrogen bonds between base pairs.
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DNA Polymerase
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DNA Polymerase inserts the appropriate bases into template strands during DNA replication.
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RNA
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Is the nucleic acid that acts as a messenger between DNA and the ribosome
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Ribose
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The sugar in RNA.
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MRNA
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Is responsible for copying one strand of DNA in the nucleus and carrying that information to the ribosomes in the cytoplasm.
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TRNA
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Adds amino acids making a protein once it drops off the amino acid it goes and gets another.
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Ribosomes
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Non-membrane bound organelles in the nucleus where proteins are assembled
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How is DNA different from RNA?
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DNA is double stranded, while RNA is single stranded.RNA contains Uracil instead of Thymine.
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Protein synthesis
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The process of making protein
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