Biology Unit 7 Vocabulary

The process by which amino acids are arranged into proteins though the involvement of rRNA, tRNA, mRNA and various enzymes.

• Mutation

• Protein Synthesis

• Transcription

• Non-Disjunction

The addition of one or more nucleotide base pairs into a DNA sequence.

• Mutation

• Addition

• Insertion

• Non-Disjunction

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

When a part of a chromosome or a sequence of DNA is missing.

• Mutation

• Addition

• Insertion

• Deletion

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The exchange of one base for another.

• Substitution

• Addition

• Insertion

• Deletion

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A gene mutation in which a single base pair in DNA has been changed.

• Anticodon

• Point Mutation

• Insertion

• Translation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A mutation that shifts the “reading frame” of the genetic message by inserting or deleting a nucleotide.

• Deletion

• Frameshift Mutation

• Insertion

• Translation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A type of chromosomal mutation in which a section of a chromosome is reversed.

• Inversion

• Frameshift Mutation

• Insertion

• Mutation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

An error in meiosis in which the homologous chromosomes fail to separate properly.

• Inversion

• Frameshift Mutation

• Non-Disjunction

• Mutation

The synthesis of an RNA molecule from a DNA template.

• Translation

• Protein Synthesis

• Non-Disjunction

• Transcription

A group of three bases on a tRNA molecule that are complementary to the three bases of a codon on mRNA.

• Codon

• Protein Synthesis

• Anticodon

• Transcription