Genetics vocab exit ticket 4/4/25

Characteristic of an organism

• trait

• codon

• anticodon

• frameshift

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

3 bases on tRNA

• anticodon

• codon

• mutation

• polypeptide

Process of converting mRNA strand into an amino acid sequence

• translation

• transcription

• mutation

• frameshift

Type of mutation that inserts or deletes bases and shifts the “reading frame”

• frameshift

• point

• silent

• anticodon

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Monomer of a protein, carried by tRNA

• amino acids

• codon

• mRNA

• rRNA

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS1-6

Type of RNA that carries the code from the nucleus to the ribosome in the cytoplasm

• mRNA

• tRNA

• rRNA

• polypeptide

Type of RNA that makes up the ribosome

• rRNA

• mRNA

• tRNA

• polypeptide

3 bases on mRNA

• codon

• anticodon

• mutation

• polypeptide

Process of copying the DNA into a strand of mRNA

• transcription

• translation

• mutation

• frameshift

Any change in the DNA sequence

• mutation

• codon

• anticodon

• polypeptide

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2