1. Journal: Describe how DNA is replicated
  1. Q. What is the shape of DNA?
  2. Q. What is the “backbone” of DNA
  3. Q. What is the product of DNA replication?
  4. Q. What does DNA polymerase do?
  5. Q. Why must DNA replicate?

  6. Q. What is the name of the bond that holds one base to another base, forming the “rungs” of the DNA ladder?
  1. Q. What is a vaccine?
  1. Q. What does a vaccine do?
  1. Q: What is a bacteriophage?
  1. Q: When does DNA replication occur?
  1. Q. What is a replication fork?
  1. Q. What is DNA made of?
  2. Q. What are the three parts of a nucleotide?
  3. Q. What does DNA stand for?
  4. Q. What is DNA named after?
  5. Q. There are two different groups of nitrogen bases what are they?
  1. Q. How many rings do purines have?
  1. Q. How many rings do pyrimidines have?
  2. Q. Which nitrogen bases are purines?
  3. Q. Which are pyrimidines?
  4. Q. Amount of A= amount of ___
  5. Q. If the parent strand reads AGCTCCGATT what will the complimentary strand read?
  6. Q. What is the enzyme that unwinds/unzips the DNA?
  7. Q. What enzyme adds the nitrogen bases?
  8. Q. Where does the energy for DNA replication come from?
  9. Q. What are the steps of DNA replication?
  10. Q. What are the base pairing rules?
  11. Q. What is a mutation?
  12. Q. What enzyme proofreads the DNA and can fix mistakes?
  1. Journal
  2. Genes Control cellular activities through a two step process called protein synthesis. Name and discuss the significance of the two steps.
  1. Q. What is the Sugar in RNA?
  2. Q. What are the three types of RNA?
  3. Q. What does rRNA do?
  4. Q. Is the genetic code different in all organisms?
  5. Q. Is protein synthesis regulated?
  6. Q. Are all genes transcribed all the time?
  7. Q. When are the introns removed?
  8. Q. What are introns?
  9. Q. What are exons?
  10. Q. What is a change in one or a few nucleotides?
  1. Q. What is the type of mutation that occurs if a nucleotide is removed?
  1. Q. What is the type of mutation that occurs when one nucleotide base is swapped for a different nucleotide base?
  1. Q. What are the RNA base pairing rules?
  1. Q. Where does transcription begin?
  1. Q. What are the two processes that make up protein synthesis?
  2. Q. What are the complements of codons on tRNA?
  3. Q. What are three differences between RNA and DNA

  5. Q. What is the process of making RNA from DNA?

  7. Q. Where does transcription take place?

  9. Q. Where does the mRNA go after transcription?
  1. Q. Transcribe this DNA sequence: AAGCATCCTGCA

  3. Q. What happens to the parent strand of DNA after the mRNA is transcribed?

  5. Q. What enzyme is used in transcription?

  7. Q. What does mRNA do?
  8. Q. What is a codon and what does it do?
  9. Q. What does tRNA do?
  10. Q. What organelle is involved in translation?

  11. Q. Use this mRNA chart to answer the question
    AAG - lysine GAA – glutamine
    ACU - threonine GGC – glycine
    AGU– serine GUA – valine
    CAU - histidine UAA – tyrosine
    CCG - proline UGA - tryptophan
    CUU - leucine UUC - phenylalanine
    Given the amino acid sequence histidine-tryptophan-leucine-lysine-proline: What is the sequence of bases coding for this amino acid chain?

  1. Q. What is the sequence of the coding strand of DNA that would transcribe into this mRNA CAUUGACUUAAGCCG?(2pts)
  2. Q. Describe the process of translation using the words mRNA, ribosome, codon, tRNA, and amino acid.