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What direction is RNA transcribed in? |
From 5 to 3 |
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What is translation? |
The creation of Protein from mRNA |
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How many amino acids are there? |
20 |
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What does it mean that RNA polymerase will move downstream? |
RNA polymerase will move from the 3 end to the 5 |
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What is a triplet codon? |
3 bases on an mRNA strand |
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What cause the secondary structure to form and what shape can it be? |
Hydrogen bonding will cause either a helix or a beta-pleated sheet |
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What causes the tertiary shape? |
It is based on of amino acids are hydrophilic or hydrophobic |
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What sequence is always at the beginning of an mRNA sequence? |
AUG |
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What does a stop codon do? |
End the creation of the protein |
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Does only one triplet code for each amino acid? Why? |
No because there are 64 triplet codets but on 20 amino acids |
