Protein Synthesis
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- Q1What is the flow of information during protein synthesis?none of the aboveDNA to RNA to proteinsRNA to protein to DNARNA to DNA to proteins30s
- Q2The basic unit of a DNA molecule is called a:dimernucleic acidmonomernucleotide30s
- Q3DNA is copied during which part of the cell cycle?MetaphaseInterphaseProphaseAnyphase30s
- Q4What happens during transcription?DNA is copiedamino acid chains are createdmRNA is made from DNAtRNA is made from DNA30s
- Q5A group of three bases on an mRNA strand is called a:proteintripletanti-codoncodon30s
- Q6A group of three bases on a tRNA strand is called a:proteinanti-codoncodonpeptide30s
- Q7If a DNA sequence contains 15 nucleotides, how many mRNA codons will there be?3155630s
- Q8mRNA contains the code to produce:proteinsgenesamino acidstRNA30s
- Q9If a DNA strand contains the bases CGTACGATCGGA then the mRNA strand will contain:CGUACGAUCGGAGCAUGCUAGCCUGCTUGCTAGCCTUCAUGCUACCGU30s
- Q10The first step of protein synthesis is called:translationduplicationreplicationtranscription30s
- Q11The second step of protein synthesis is called:transcriptiontranslationduplicationmutation30s
- Q12Mistakes in the replication of DNA will result in:mutationsprotein synthesisextra body partsdeath30s
- Q13What is the start codon on mRNA?AUGUAATACGCA30s
- Q14Where does DNA replication take place?mitochondrianucleuscytoplasmribosome30s
- Q15Where does transcription take place?nucleuscytoplasmvacuoleribosome30s