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biological polymers made from nucleoitde monomers
nucleic acids
nucleic acids are made up of repeating molecules called
nucleotides
3 components of nucleotide
sugar
nitrogenous base
phosphate group
discovered DNA structure
James Watson
Francis Crick
2 important characteristics of DNA strands
complementary
antiparallel
DNA types of amino acids
adenine (A)
cytosin (C)
guanine (G)
thymine (T)
DNA
A pairs with
T
shape of DNA
double helix
double strand molecule
composition of RNA nucleotide
ribose sugar
nitrogenous base
phosphate group
RNA is transcribed from DNA by enzymes called
RNA polymerase
RNA is central to the synthesis of?
proteins
ribosomes are made from
proteins
ribosomal RNA
3 types of RNA in the cell
Messenger RNA (mRNA)
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA)
Transfer RNA (tRNA)
a molecule of RNA encoding chemical blueprint for protein product
mRNA
transcribed from DNA template
mRNA
carries coding information to the sites of protein synthesis
mRNA
mediates recognition of codon and provides corresponding amino acid
tRNA
central component of ribosome's protein manufacturing machinery
rRNA
genes are arranged ____ along long chains of DNA sequence called ____
linearly
chromosomes
largest human chromosome
247 million base pair in length
the full set of hereditary material in an organism
genome
the genome of an organism is its hereditary information encoded in
DNA
genome coined by
Hans Winkler
genome is a portmanteau of
gene
chromosome
process by which information from a gene is used in the synthesis of a functional gene product
gene expression
the product of gene expression
protein
gene expression is done in what two (2) steps?
DNA transcription
mRNA translation
the process of making an RNA copy of a single gene
DNA transcription
enzyme used in DNA transcription
RNA polymerase
the genetic code in mRNA is translated into proteins by?
ribosomes
each __ nucleotides in ____ form a ___
3
mRNA
codon
each codon specifies ____ amino acid
one
Author
summerdhon
ID
333668
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nucleic acid
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cytop
Updated
2017-08-23T16:18:07Z
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