Genetics Quiz

DNA affects the traits of an organism by providing the instructions for synthesizing (a)   .

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Gene expression involves two phases, (a)   and translation.

Messenger RNA molecules contain information that is used to synthesize (a)   .

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To begin transcription, RNA polymerase must bind to a segment of DNA called the (a)   .

The strand of DNA that is not transcribed is called the (a)   strand.

During (a)   , a ribosome assembles a polypeptide whose amino acid sequence is specified by the nucleotide sequence in a molecule of mRNA.

The sequence of nucleotides in a DNA molecule is called the (a)   code.

Crick and his colleagues proposed that the genetic code consists of a series of blocks of information, called (a)   , each corresponding to one amino acid in an encoded protein.

Gene (a)   refers to the combined processes of transcription and translation.

During transcription of mRNA in eukaryotes, some sequences are cut out of the primary transcript and the remaining sequences are joined together. This processing of mRNA is called (a)   .