1. Nucleotide

2. Monomer of nucleic acid – made up of a sugar, a base, and a phosphate group

3. Base Pairing

4. Bonds form between guanine and cytosine and Adenine and Thymine

5. Transformation

6. Process by which one bacteria is changed by a gene or genes from another strain of bacteria

7. Deoxyribose

8. Sugar in DNA

9. Double Helix

10. Shape of DNA

11. Chromatin

12. DNA wrapped with proteins

13. Replication

14. Process when DNA makes a copy of itself

15. DNA Polymerase

16. Enzyme that makes the new strand of DNA

17. Helicase

18. Enzyme that unwinds DNA

19. Chromosome

20. Structure that carries the genetic material – thread like

21. Complementary

22. This is what the new strand of DNA is called

23. DNA

24. Deoxyribonucleic Acid

25. VOCAB QUIZ #2 Words

26. Messenger
RNA

27. Molecule that carries copies of instructions for the assembly of amino acids

28. Transfer RNA

29. Molecule that carries amino acids to the ribosomes during protein synthesis

30. transcription

31. Process by which a strand of mRNA is copied from a section of DNA enough information to code for 1 protein

32. Translation

33. Process by which a polypeptide is made from the instruction on a mRNA molecule

34. Codon

35. 3 nucleotide sequence on mRNA that codes for an amino acid

36. Anti-codon

37. Group of 3 bases on a tRNA molecule that are complementary to a 3 nucleotide sequence on mRNA

38. Genetic code

39. Language of mRNA instructions on how to make a protein

40. Amino acid

41. Molecule made up of a carboxyl group, amino group, and an R group
Molecule made up of a carboxyl group, amino group, and an R group. Many of them together make a protein.

42. Protein

43. Sequence of amino acids – long chain

44. Polypeptide

45. Sequence of amino acids – long chain

46. Mutation

47. Any change in a DNA sequence that affects the genetic info

48. DNA

49. Double stranded contains all of the genetic code

50. RNA

51. Single stranded – contains info to code 1 protein