Mac 10-11: N Flashcards
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The complementary DNA strand from 5’ to 3’ direction of 5’-ATTCGACGATC-3’ is _____.
-GATCGTCGAAT
The complimentary DNA strand in 5’ to 3’ direction of 3’-TAAGCGACCT-5’ is _____
-ATTCGCTGGA
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The complementary mRNA strand from 5’ to 3’ direction of 3’-ATTCGACGATC-5’ is _____.
-UAAGCUGCUAG
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Nucleic acids are composed of nitrogenous base, ____ group, and _____ sugar.
- Phosphate
- Pentose
True or False
Similar to DNA polymerase, RNA pol II reads the template strand from 5’ to 3’ direction and synthesizes the mRNA transcript from 3’ to 5’direction.
-False (Reads at 3’ to 5’ & Synthesizes at 5’ to 3’)
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Match the nitrogenous bases.
- Adenine
- Guanine
- Cytosine
- Uracil
- Thymine
- Pyrimidine
- Purine
- Pyrimidine
- Purine
- Pyrimidine
- Purine
- Purine
- Pyrimidine
- Pyrimidine
- Pyrimidine
True or False
The main enzyme that catalyzes the addition of new nucleotides in the growing strand is called DNA polymerase III. The enzyme reads the template in a 3’ to 5’ direction and synthesizes in a 5’ to 3’ direction
-True
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(parallel or antiparallel)
The structure of DNA is a double stranded helix with strands that are _____ .
-Antiparallel
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The two groups of nitrogenous bases are _____ and _____.
- Purines
- Pyrimidines
True or False
To form long chains of polynucleotides, the nucleotides are linked to each other by their phosphate groups through the 3’ and 5’ ends.
-True
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In _____ rule, adenine is paired with thymine.
-Chargaff’s
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Match the following terms in the central dogma of the cell.
- DNA to DNA
- DNA to RNA
- mRNA to protein
- Translation
- Replication
- Transcription
- Replication
- Transcription
- Translation
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The amino acid sequence of the mRNA transcript 5’-ATG-AAA-CGU-GGU-3’ is H2N-_____-_____-_____-_____-COOH. (Write the 3-letter code of the amino acid)
- Met
- Lys
- Arg
- Gly
