8th Grade Protein Synthesis

Main understanding and thesis stating that the genetic code is eventually turned into proteins that form our structure and composition.

• Protein

• Central Dogma of Biology

• mRNA

• Protein Synthesis

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An organic compound that makes up much of the structure of the cell and completes work inside the cell.

• DNA

• tRNA

• Protein

• Ribosome

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Organelle which makes proteins

• Ribosome

• mRNA

• Nucleus

• Central Dogma of Biology

Different shaped chemicals which form in long strands to make proteins.

• Mutation

• Ribosome

• Enzyme

• Amino Acid

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A process in which the cell uses information from a gene to make a protein

• mRNA

• Protein Synthesis

• Mutation

• Enzyme

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Single stranded nucleic acid which contains the base Uracil instead of Thymine

• Enzyme

• DNA

• Protein

• Ribonucleic Acid

An RNA strand which copies the nitrogen base sequence of DNA and takes it to the ribosome.

• DNA

• tRNA

• mRNA

• Protein

Carries amino acids to the ribosome to add to the growing protein strand

• tRNA

• mRNA

• DNA

• Protein

A type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions to perform work in the cell.

• Mutation

• mRNA

• DNA

• Enzyme

A change in the nitrogen base sequence in a gene

• Enzyme

• Mutation

• Thymine

• Uracil

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