1. JEOPARDY #1 DNA and RNA Chapter 12 S2C06 Jeopardy Review

2. DNA Structure
Vocab
Replication
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3. DNA Structure 100
Tell one experiment you learned about that helped scientists learn about the nature of DNA
A: What is Griffith (Pneumonia/rats) Avery (Pneumonia/rats/digestive enzymes) Hershey - Chase (radioactive bacteriophages) Franklin- Xray diffraction ?
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4. DNA Structure 200
Name the 2 kinds of molecules that make up the backbone of the DNA molecule.
A: What are deoxyribose sugars and phosphates?
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5. DNA Structure 300 Name the nitrogen bases used to make the DNA code
A: What are Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine?
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6. DNA Structure 400 Nitrogen bases made with 2 rings (like A and G) A G
A: What are purines ? G
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7. DNA Structure 500 What are Chargaff’s Rules ?
A: What is A = T and G = C ?
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8. Vocabulary 100 Subunits used to make DNA A: What are nucleotides ?
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9. Vocabulary 200
Process in which one strain of bacteria is changed by absorbing DNA from another strain of bacteria
A: What is transformation?
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10. Vocabulary 300 A virus that infects bacteria
A: What is a bacteriophage ?
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11. Vocabulary 400
Form of DNA that is seen in the nucleus of non-dividing cells which is more spread out so cells can read the code
A: What is chromatin ?
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12. Vocabulary 500
3 consecutive nucleotide bases on an m-RNA molecule that code for a specific amino acid
A: What is a codon?
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13. Main enzyme that joins nucleotides to make a DNA molecule
Replication 100
Main enzyme that joins nucleotides
to make a DNA molecule
A: What is DNA Polymerase?
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14. Site where separation of strands and replication occurs
A: What is a replication fork ?
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15. Give the complementary DNA code for: A T G G C T
Replication 300
Give the complementary DNA code for:
A T G G C T
A: What is: T A C C G A ?
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16. Tell something else DNA polymerase does besides join nucleotides
Replication 400
Tell something else DNA polymerase does besides join nucleotides
A: What is proofreads new strand to check for errors?
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17. How is replication in prokaryotes different from eukaryotes?
A: What is prokaryotes- starts in one spot and goes both directions around circle
Eukaryotes- starts in hundreds of places and moves in opposite directions along strand?
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18. Transcription 100 Name the 3 kinds of RNA produced by transcription
A: What are messenger-RNA, transfer-RNA, and ribosomal-RNA?
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19. Transcription 200
Name the nitrogen base used in transcription that is NOT used in replication
A: What is uracil?
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20. Transcription 300
Regions on the DNA where RNA polymerase binds to start transcription
A: What are promoters?
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21. Transcription 400
Sequences of DNA that are cut out of the corresponding RNA molecule while it is still in the nucleus
A: What are introns ?
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22. Transcription 500 Give the RNA message for this piece of DNA:
A T G G C T
A: What is: U A C C G A ?
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23. Subunits that are joined together to make proteins
Translation 100
Subunits that are joined together to make proteins
A: What are amino acids?
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24. Place in cell where proteins are assembled
Translation 200
Place in cell where proteins are assembled
A: What is on the ribosomes?
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25. would you find an ANTICODON?
Translation 300
On which kind of RNA
would you find an ANTICODON?
A: What is transfer-RNA or T-RNA?
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26. Another name for translation
A: What is protein synthesis?
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27. Translation 500 A: What is leucine? Which amino acid
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Translation 500
THREONINE
Which amino acid
will be added next?
VALINE
METHIONINE-ALANINE-LYSINE-?
LEUCINE
A: What is leucine?
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