DNA Flashcards
(33 cards)
Ribose
Sugar in RNA
Deoxyribose
Sugar in DNA
A,T,C,G, & U (in RNA)
Nitrogenous bases
Adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil
Purine
2 carbon rings (A&G)
Pyrimidine
1 carbon ring (C&T)
Nucleotide
1 phosphate, 1 deoxyribose, 1 nitrogenous base
Mutation
Heritable changes in genetic information - a mismatch in one or mor bp
Point mutation
2 nucleotides switched
Frameshift mutation
Add or delete a nucleotide
Hydrogen bonds
Bases held in pairs by these weak bonds
AT- 2
CG- 3
Covalent bonds
Nucleotides held together and to others by these strong bonds
DNA Replication
DNA doubles in S phase of interphase
Helicase
Enzyme unzips hydrogen bonds
DNA polymerase
Deals out correct nucleotides to old strands making 2 new identical DNA strands
Replication fork
When DNA replicates it looks like fork
Replication bubble
replication starts at different points, making what look like bubbles that grow and meet
Promoter
Marks the beginning of a gene
Termination signal
Where transcription stops - end of a gene
Transcription
Process of copying instructions from DNA to mRNA
Translation
The process of decoding the mRNA into a protein
Codon
Any three mRNA nucleotide sequences that code for a protein
Anticodon
3 nucleotide sequence on tRNA that are the opposite of the mRNA codon
Start codon
AUG - codes for amino acid methionine - all polypeptides start with met
Stop codon
UAA, UAG, UGA, no amino acids match these