A & P chpt 4 vocab 2

Question 1

complete set of genetic instructions ofor an organism.

Answer 1

genome

Question 2

the type of nitrogen containing base that is part of DNA and RNA and has two organic rings;

Answer 2

purine

Question 3

type of nitrogen containing base that is part of DNA and RNA and has two organic rings; thymine & cytosine and uracil

Answer 3

pyrimidine

Question 4

hydrogen bonded adenine and thymine and guanine and cytosine in DNA. Adenine bonds to uracil

Answer 4

complementary base pairs

Question 5

copying of a DNA molecule

Answer 5

replication

Question 6

ribonucleic acid

Answer 6

RNA

Question 7

manufactuuring a complementary RNA from DNA

Answer 7

transcription

Question 8

messenger RNA

Answer 8

mRNA

Question 9

set of 3 nucleotides of a messenger RNA molecule corresponding to one of the 20 types of amino acids

Answer 9

codons

Question 10

assembly of amino acid chain according to the sequence of base triplets in an mRNA molecule

Answer 10

translation

Question 11

3 contagious nucleotides of a transfer RNA molecule that are complementary to a specific mRNA codon

Answer 11

anitcodon

Question 12

a group of reactions that enable a cell to repair certain types of DNA changes that occur during replication.

Answer 12

DNA damage response