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What part of the cell is DNA found in?
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Nucleus
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Does DNA ever leave the nucleus?
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NO
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What does DNA stand for? (DEOX)
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Deoxyribonucleic acid
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What does DNA look like?
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It looks like a double helix shape.
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What is the DNA ladder made of? 3 parts.
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Sugars, Nitrogen base, and phosphates.
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In DNA, adenine always pairs with _____ and cytosine always pairs with _____.
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Blank one: Thymine
Blank two: Guanine |
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In RNA, adenine always pairs with _____ and cytosine always pairs with _____.
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Blank one: Uracil
Blank two: Guanine |
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What happens in replication?
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DNA is replicated or copied.
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Where does replication always happen?
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Inside the nucleus
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Three nucleotides of mRNA in a triplet is called a ____.
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Codon
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Three nucleotides of tRNA in a triplet is called an _____.
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Anti-codon
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What happens in transcription?
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The process of transcribing genetic info.
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What is translation?
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Genetic code is used to produce a polypeptide chain
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What are the building blocks of proteins?
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Amino acids
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What is this? |
An enzyme of course!
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