Unit 4 Supplemental Learning (Teach)

Question 1

These are monomer of proteins

Answer 1

Amino acids

Question 2

____ are pieces of DNA/RNA that do get used to make a protein.

Answer 2

Exons

Question 3

The name for a series of nucleotides that code for protein

Answer 3

Gene

Question 4

Which molecule makes the mRNA from the code in DNA?

Answer 4

RNA Polymerase

Question 5

This signals the end of a protein

Answer 5

Stop codon

Question 6

What tells RNA polymerase that the end of the gene has been reached?

Answer 6

Polyadenylation sequence

Question 7

These are proteins that help signal to RNA polymerase to start here

Answer 7

Transcription factors

Question 8

Translation occurs in the ____ of the cell

Answer 8

Cytoplasm

Question 9

This type of RNA is made directly from the code in DNA

Answer 9

Messenger RNA

Question 10

Transcription occurs in the ____ of the cell

Answer 10

Nucleus

Question 11

_____ Are pieces of DNA/RNA that do not get used to make a protein

Answer 11

Introns

Question 12

During ___mRNA is created

Answer 12

Transcription

Question 13

This type of mutation changes a nucleotide, but not the amino acid that it placed into the protein

Answer 13

Silent

Question 14

Which amino acid starts out all proteins?

Answer 14

Methionine

Question 15

This is the area where transcription begins

Answer 15

Promoter

Question 16

What is another term for transcription and translation?

Answer 16

Gene expression

Question 17

During ____ a polypeptide is created

Answer 17

Translation

Question 18

This type of mutation shift the reading frame of the codons

Answer 18

Frame shift

Question 19

This type of RNA has an anticodon and an amino acid on it

Answer 19

Transfer

Question 20

This type of mutation would have no effect on an organisms ability to survive or reproduce

Answer 20

Neutral