SP24 Bio14 Vocab Quiz

Single-stranded nucleic acid that contains the sugar ribose.

• RNA
• ribosomal RNA
• transcription
• promoter

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

• messenger RNA
• transfer RNA
• RNA polymerase
• intron

Type of RNA that combines with proteins to form ribosomes.

• ribosomal RNA
• transcription
• promoter
• exon

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

• transfer RNA
• RNA polymerase
• intron
• polypeptide

Synthesis of an RNA molecule from a DNA template

• transcription
• promoter
• exon
• genetic code

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

• RNA polymerase
• intron
• polypeptide
• codon

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

• promoter
• exon
• genetic code
• translation

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

• intron
• polypeptide
• codon
• anticodon

Expressed sequence of DNA; codes for a protein.

• exon
• genetic code
• translation
• operon

Long chain of amino acids that make proteins.

• polypeptide
• codon
• anticodon
• operator