DNA Unit Vocab Review

What type of mutation has occurred in the example shown?

Normal sentence: THE BIG FAT CAT ATE THE WET RAT

Mutated sentence: THB IGF ATC ATA TET HEW ETR AT

• insertion

• frameshift

• lethal

• substitution

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Match the letter of the correct type of RNA on the line next to its description. Answers may be used only once. __ travels from nucleus to a ribosome to direct the creation of a protein __ transports amino acids to a ribosome __ is part of a ribosome

• is part of a ribosome

• Messenger RNA

• travels from nucleus to a ribosome to direct the creation of a protein

• Transfer RNA

• transports amino acids to a ribosome

• Ribosomal RNA

Rosalind Franklin's X-ray diffraction image revealed DNA molecule's shape as a/an _________________.

• double helix

• triple helix

• single strand

• quadruple helix

The base sequence cytosine-adenine-cytosine, is an example of a/an _________________.

• codon

• nucleotide

• gene

• chromosome

The synthesis of mRNA from DNA is called _________________.

• transcription

• translation

• replication

• mutation

The process of the mRNA connecting to a ribosome and reading the code to produce a protein is called _________________.

• translation

• transcription

• replication

• mutation

A strand containing ribose and uracil is called _________________.

• RNA

• DNA

• Protein

• Lipid

A type of mutation that is a chemical change in just one base pair is called a/an _________________.

• point mutation

• frame shift mutation

• deletion mutation

• insertion mutation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A bacterium that synthesizes an enzyme that neutralizes an environmental toxin would probably use an inducible _______________ to regulate production of the enzyme.

• operon

• promoter

• repressor

• enhancer

What part of the chromosome might be involved with processes such as aging and cancer?

• centromere

• nucleosome

• telomere

• chromatin