Protein Synthesis and Mutations

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What is the process in which mRNA is synthesized from the template DNA?

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Transcription

Front

What is a change in a DNA sequence that affects genetic information called?

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Mutation

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What is the DNA strand that provides the template for ordering the sequence of nucleotides in an mRNA transcript?

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Template strand

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What type of frameshift mutation involves the loss of one or more base pairs in the DNA?

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Deletion mutation

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What type of frameshift mutation involves the addition of one or more nucleotide pairs to a gene?

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Insertion mutation

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What is the role of ribosomes in protein synthesis?

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Ribosomes facilitate the translation of mRNA into a polypeptide chain.

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What are the building blocks of proteins?

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Amino acids

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What is the process called where the ribosome reads mRNA to synthesize proteins?

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Translation

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What is a codon?

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A codon is a sequence of three nucleotides in mRNA that specifies a particular amino acid.

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What is an anti-codon?

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An anti-codon is a sequence of three nucleotides in tRNA that is complementary to a codon in mRNA.