Genetics Quiz

DNA affects the traits of an organism by providing the instructions for synthesizing _______.

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Gene expression involves two phases, _______ and translation.

Messenger RNA molecules contain information that is used to synthesize _______.

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

The strand of DNA that is not transcribed is called the _______ strand.

During _______, 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 ________ code.

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

Gene ________ 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 ________.