RNA and Protein Synthesis. Ribonucleic acid 1. What does the abbreviation RNA stand for?

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Ribonucleic acid

1. What does the abbreviation RNA stand for?

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a. The sugar in RNA is ribose, not deoxyribose.

b. RNA is usually single-stranded, not double stranded.

c. RNA has uracil in place of thymine.

2. List three ways RNA is different from DNA.

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RNA is a Blueprint from the master plan

3. If DNA is the “master plan,” then what is RNA?

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a. Messenger RNA (mRNA)

b. Transfer RNA (tRNA)

c. Ribosomal RNA (rRNA)

4. Name three main types of RNA?

Ribosome

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5. What type of RNA combines with proteins to form ribosomes?

Ribosome

Proteins?

rRNA

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6. What type of RNA carries an amino acid to a ribosome during protein synthesis?

Amino acid

?

tRNA

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a) rRNAb) amino acidsc) enzymesd) codons

7. Serine, proline, and methionine are examples of

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8. How many different kinds of amino acids make up proteins in the body?

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mRNA

9. What type of RNA carries copies of instructions for the assembly of amino acids into proteins from DNA to the rest of the cell?

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10. What process is shown below?

Transcription

mRNADNA

RNAPolymerase

mRNA

DNA

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11. Where in the cell does transcription take place? In the nucleus

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12. What is the enzyme that transcribes mRNA from DNA called?

RNA Polymerase

mRNA

DNA

?

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13. What molecule is being made by RNA polymerase?

mRNA

DNA

RNAPolymerase

DNA

?

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314. How many codons are shown on the mRNA?

1 2 3

mRNA

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15. Transcribe the following strand of DNA.

mRNA

Template DNA

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RNA Polymerase

15. Transcribe the following strand of DNA?

16. What enzyme were you simulating?

mRNA

Template DNA

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Translation17. What process is shown below?

Ribosome

mRNA

tRNA

Polypeptide

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Ribosome18. What is the large, gray molecule?

mRNA

tRNA

Polypeptide

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a. Ribosomes “read” DNA to make RNA.b. Ribosomes edit RNA to make mRNA.c. Ribosomes “read” mRNA to make

polypeptides.d. Ribosomes fold and assemble

polypeptides into proteins.

19. What is the function of the ribosome?

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Amino acids20. What class of monomers make up the polypeptide shown below?

mRNA

tRNA

Polypeptide

Ribosome

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tRNA21. What is the name of the molecule that carries an amino acid to the ribosome?

mRNA

Polypeptide

Ribosome

?

Amino acid

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22. What is a group of three bases on tRNA called that are complementary to the three bases of a codon of mRNA?

tRNA

Anticodon

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23. What is the name of the long molecule that the ribosome is translating?

Polypeptide

Ribosome

?

Amino acid

mRNA

tRNA

RNA and Protein Synthesis24. The table below shows the __________ code , which is a collection of codons of mRNA and the amino acids they code for.

genetic

RNA and Protein Synthesis25. Translate the strand of mRNA shown below.

mRNA

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26. The process of making proteins on the ribosome based on instructions from messenger RNA is called

a. DNA synthesisb. Transcriptionc. Translationd. RNA editing

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27. Where in the cell does translation take place? In the cytoplasm

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28. The process by which the genetic code of DNA is copied into a strand of RNA is called

a. translationb. transcriptionc. transformationd. replication

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29. In messenger RNA, each codon calls for a particular

a. nucleotideb. enzymec. promoterd. amino acid

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30. In eukaryotes, RNA undergoes cutting and splicing in a process known as

a. translationb. RNA editingc. transcriptiond. polymerization

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31. In eukaryotes, functional mRNA molecules are made from

a. Exons spliced together after introns are removed.

b. Introns spliced together after exons are removed.

c. Exons spliced together with introns.d. pieces of RNA joining with DNA to make

even longer pieces.

RNA and Protein Synthesis32. What space does DNA go in? B

DNA

RNA and Protein Synthesis33. What space does mRNA go in? G

DNA

mRNA

RNA and Protein Synthesis34. What space does polypeptide go in? E

DNA

mRNA

Polypeptide

RNA and Protein Synthesis35. What space does translation go in? I

DNA

mRNA

Polypeptide

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RNA and Protein Synthesis36. What space does protein synthesis go in? A

DNA

mRNA

Polypeptide

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RNA and Protein Synthesis37. What space does transcription go in? C

DNA

mRNA

Polypeptide

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Transcription

RNA and Protein Synthesis38. What space does tRNA go in? J

DNA

mRNA

Polypeptide

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Transcription

tRNA

RNA and Protein Synthesis39. What space does codon go in? K

DNA

mRNA

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Transcription

tRNA

codon

RNA and Protein Synthesis40. What space does amino acids go in? H

DNA

mRNA

Polypeptide

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Transcription

tRNA

codon

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RNA and Protein Synthesis41. What goes in space F? Anticodon

DNA

mRNA

Polypeptide

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Transcription

tRNA

codon

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RNA and Protein Synthesis42. What goes in space D? RNA Polymerase

DNA

mRNA

Polypeptide

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Transcription

tRNA

codon

Amino acidsanticodon

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RNA and Protein Synthesis43. What goes in space L? Ribosome

DNA

mRNA

Polypeptide

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Transcription

tRNA

codon

Amino acidsanticodon

RNA Polymerase

Ribosome