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1
Q

What is the Central Dogma

A
  • proposed by Francis Crick in 1956
  • DNA-DNA (replication)
  • DNA-RNA (transcription)
  • RNA-Protein
    (translation)
  • entire process is gene expression
2
Q

What is the template for replication

A

DNA

3
Q

Originally, the Central Dogma was thought to be

A
  • unidirectional

- no flow of info from protein to RNA

4
Q

From RNA-DNA

A
  • Reverse transcriptases
  • RNA-dependent DNA polymerases
  • Retroviruses
  • cDNA
5
Q

The entity used to make DNA using a DNA template is called

A

DNA polymerase

6
Q

The entity used to make RNA using a DNA template is called

A

RNA polymerase

7
Q

The entity responsible for covalently linking amino acids to make proteins is called

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ribosome