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15 Cards in this Set
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Nucleotides in DNA are made of a ______, ______ & __________
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deoxyribose (5 carbon) sugar, phosphate group and a nitrogenous base
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The four types of DNA bases
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adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine (a&t, g&c)
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DNA is copied during a process called ____
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mitosis
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DNA _________ results in two DN molecules each with a new strand and original one
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replication
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A DNA strand is shaped like a?
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double helix
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Ladder analogy of the shape of DNA: sugar and phosphate "____" would be the sides of the ladder, and the ____ would be the rungs of the ladder
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backbones
bases |
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Nucleotides in RNA are made of a _____ sugar, ______ group, and a ______ base
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ribose
phosphate nitrogenous |
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4 types of RNA bases are
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uracil, guanine, adenine, cytosine
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RNA base pairing
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A w. U and G w. C
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____ replaces thymine during RNA base pairing
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uracil
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Protein synthesis involes 3 types of RNA?
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messenger RMA (mRNA)
transfer RNA Ribosomal RNA |
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__________ serves as the messenger from DNA
to the rest of the cell |
mRNA
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____ is created by copying part of the nucleotide sequence of DNA to the rest of the cell
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mRNA
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containts codons which correlate to amino acids
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mRNA
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the part of the ribosome where proteins are assembled
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active site
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