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Ch 12 Study Guide – DNA & Protein Synthesis

 

Answer the following in Word and save to your ID in the student share drive.

 

 

1.      Who created the first model of DNA?  What did it look like?

 

2.      What molecules make up a nucleotide of DNA?  RNA?

 

3.      Describe the process of DNA replication.

 

4.      Does replication occur in one direction?

 

5.      What are three ways DNA is different from RNA?

 

6.      Name the types of RNA and their purposes.

 

7.      What holds nitrogen bases together?

 

8.      What is a codon?  How many codons are needed to specify an amino acid?

 

9.      Describe the transcription process.  Where does it occur in a cell?  What does it produce?

 

10.  Describe translation.  Where does it occur in a cell?  What does it produce?

 

11.  What causes translation to start or stop?

 

12.  Replicate this strand of DNA:  AUGATGACATAG

 

13.  Transcribe this strand of DNA:  AUGCAGTCATAT

 

14.  Translate this strand:  AUGGAGUCUAAU

 

15.  What codons specify the amino acid Alanine?

 

16.  Describe the Hershey-Chase experiment.  What were the results?  Conclusions?

 

17.  Describe the Griffith experiment.  What were the results? Conclusions?

 

18.  Define the following: deletion,  translocation,  point mutation,  inversion, gene mutation, chromosomal mutation, frameshift mutation

 

19.  How is mRNA created?

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