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BIO FINALS
Study for Vandyke finals!
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Biology
9th Grade
05/31/2017

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What is the shape of DNA and how many strands does it have?
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Double helix with two strands.

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What is the job of DNA?

 

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The instructions of the body: found in the nucleous.

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What is a gene?
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Short sectionbs of DNA that code for traits.

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Put in the following in order: genome, gene, nucleotide, chromosome
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Genome, chromosome, gene, nucleotide. 

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How many strands does RNA have?
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One.

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What is the monomer, or building block, or RNA?
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Nucleotide.

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What base is NOT found in RNA? What is only found in RNA?
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NOT: Thymine.

 

ONLY: Uracil.

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What is the purpose of mRNA?
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Carry coded message, from nucleous to cytoplasm, which directs transcription.

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Where does trancription occur?
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Nucleus.

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What is transciption?
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mRNA being gused to make protein.

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(DNA to RNA) 

 

A : __
T : __
C : __
G : __
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A : U

T : A

C : G

G : C

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What is translation?
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Makes mRNA into amino acid and into protein.

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Where does translation occur?
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Cytoplasm: ribosome.

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What is the monomer that makes up proteins?
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Amino acid.

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What is the central dogma of biology?
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The two-step process, transcription and translation.

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