Protein Synthesis 2025

What is a silent mutation?

• Albinism is a silent mutation.

• A mutation that changes a person's phenotype.

• A mutation that results in the same amino acid.

• A mutation where a C is switched with a G.

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

During transcription, this type of ribonucleic acid is responsible for copying the DNA and brining it out of the nucleus.

• tRNA

• mRNA

• rRNA

• dRNA

What effect do genetic mutations have on proteins?

• A different protein could be made due to a mutation.

• The protein could be shaped differently due to a mutation.

• A person's phenotype could be different due to the mutation

• Genetic mutations always make a protein "bad".

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS1-6

When these bond together, they form a protein

• Amino Acids

• Peptide Bonds

• Ribose

• Nucleotides

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

The process where mRNA is read and made into an amino acid chain.

• Transcription
• Translation
• Transportation
• Transient

What is the three base sequence of mRNA that codes for a single amino acid?

• Anticodon
• Codon
• Protein

Which of these nitrogenous bases is NOT in RNA?

• Uracil
• Thymine
• Cytosine
• Guanine

In RNA, Uracil pairs with ______. 

• cytosine
• adenine
• guanine
• thymine

Guanine bonds with ______________.

• Adenine
• Guanine
• Cytosine
• Thymine

Adenine bonds with ______________ in DNA.

• Guanine
• Thymine
• Cytosine
• Adenine