Download BIO I Review Packet Protein Synthesis 2017

Name__________________________________________Date________Period______
Review Sheet:
DNA/RNA and Protein Synthesis
1.
What does DNA stand for?
2. Is DNA a polymer or a monomer?___________________________
3. What is the monomer of a nucleic acid?
4. What are the two nucleic acids that were discussed in class?
5. What are the components of a nucleotide?
6. Please list several differences between DNA and RNA.
7. What is the shape of DNA? _________________ ________________
8. What type of bond holds together the “backbone” of DNA?
9. What type of bond holds together the two strands of DNA?
10. DNA has the instructions for making? _________________________
11. Where in the DNA structure are the instructions for making proteins?
12. What is complimentary base paring?
13. What is gene?
14. What is a chromosome?
15. What are the two steps of protein synthesis?
16. Please list the steps of transcription.
17. Where does transcription occur?
18. What are the three forms of RNA, what do they stand for, and what is their
function?
19. Where does translation take place?
20. Please list the steps of translation.
21. What is a codon? What is an anticodon?
22. What is a start codon? What is a stop codon?
23. How many amino acids are there? __________
24. How could so many proteins result from only 20 different amino acids?
25. What is the monomer of a protein?
26. Why does DNA need to make an mRNA copy?
27. Can a tRNA molecule carry any amino acid from the cytoplasm to the ribosome?
28. In transcription, does a portion of the DNA unwind, or the entire molecule of DNA?
Please explain your answer.
29. In transcription, what is the name of the DNA strand used to make the mRNA copy?
30. In transcription, are both DNA strands used to make an mRNA copy?
31. What controls the process of transcription?
32. How does the tRNA molecule know if it is placing the amino acid in the correct
sequence?
33. What is the relationship between the DNA Sense Strand and the DNA Antisense
Strand?
34. What is the relationship between the DNA Antisense Strand and the mRNA codon?
35. What is the relationship between the mRNA codon and the DNA Sense Strand?
36. What molecule with transfer the amino acids from the cytoplasm to the ribosome?
37. Look over your Protein Synthesis Worksheet again!