Biology ch 13.1 vocabulary saksa

A single stranded nucleic acid that contains the sugar ribose.

• RNA

• messenger RNA

• ribosomal RNA

• transfer RNA

Type of RNA that carries copies of instructions for the assembly of amino acids into proteins from DNA to the rest of the cell.

• RNA

• messenger RNA

• transfer RNA

• ribosomal RNA

Type of RNA that combines proteins to form ribosomes.

• RNA

• messenger RNA

• transfer RNA

• ribosomal RNA

Type of RNA that carries each amino acid to a ribosome during protein synthesis.

• RNA

• messenger RNA

• transfer RNA

• ribosomal RNA

Synthesis of an RNA molecule from a DNA template.

• promoter

• RNA polymerase

• transcription

• exon

Enzyme that links together the growing chain of RNA nucleotides during transcription using a DNA strand as a template.

• RNA polymerase

• intron

• exon

• promoter

Specific region of a gene where RNA polymerase can bind and begin transcription.

• transcription

• intron

• exon

• promoter

Sequence of DNA that is not involved in coding for a protein.

• transcription

• intron

• exon

• promoter

Expressed sequence of DNA; codes for a protein.

• promoter

• exon

• intron

• transcription