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18 Cards in this Set
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Genetic Code |
How the information of life is stored in a cell's DNA |
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Nitrogenous bases (DNA) |
Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine |
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Base pairing |
Attraction between complementary nitrogenous base that produces a force that holds the two strand of DNA together |
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Replication |
Copy DNA |
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Watson and Crick |
First to describe structure of DNA and replication |
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Nitrogenous bases (RNA) |
Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Uracil |
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mRNA |
Carries information from the DNA to ribosomes |
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rRNA |
Makes up major part of ribosome |
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tRNA |
Carries amino acids to ribosomes |
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Transcription |
Molecule of DNA is copied into a complementary stand of mRNA |
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RNA polymerase |
Connects RNA nucleotides to each other |
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Codon |
Group of three nucleotides on an mRNA strand the codes for an amino acid |
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Prokaryotic Cells |
mRNA molecule transcribes from gene is the code to make proteins |
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Eukayotic Cells |
RNA is modified before used to make proteins |
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Introns |
Noncoding regions in mRNA |
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Exons |
Parts of mRNA used to form proteins |
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RNA splicing |
Removes introns and joins exons together |
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Translation |
mRNA messages get decoded into proteins |
