Download (RNA and Protein Synthesis) Section 11.4 Questions

Biology Section 11.4 RNA/Protein Synthesis (p. 235-237)
Name ________________________
Big Question: How is DNA able to store genetic information, copy it, and pass it from
generation to generation?
Students will be able to:
a) Trace the information flow from DNA to protein.
b) Describe how amino acids are coded.
1. Describe an organism’s genotype in terms of DNA.
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2. Describe an organism’s phenotype in terms of proteins.
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3. Who were the scientists that studied orange bread mold? When?
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4. What was different about the growth of the mutant strains of the orange bread mold?
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5. What was the mutant stains lacking? _________________________
6. Where were the mutant strains defective? ________________________
7. What does the “one gene-one enzyme” state?
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8. What is the name of the newer version of the research from #7? ________________________
9. How is the language of genes written? ____________________________________________
10. If bases are the letters, then each gene is a _________________________.
11. What is the full molecular name for RNA? _______________________________________
12. What is the sugar in RNA? _________________________
What is the sugar in DNA? _________________________
13. Which nitrogenous base does RNA contain that DNA does not? ______________________
14. Which nitrogenous base does DNA contain that RNA does not? ______________________
15. Which nitrogenous base does the answer from #13 pair with? ________________________
16. What shape does RNA typically form? _________________________
17. What is the name of the first step of the DNA to RNA conversion? ____________________
18. Does this first step of the conversion take place inside or outside of the nucleus? _________
19. Where does the transcribed message go? _________________________
20. What is going to be made in the cytoplasm? _________________________
21. Where does the DNA remain? _________________________
22. What is the name of the second step that converts nucleic acid language to amino acid
language? _________________________
23. The flow of information from gene to protein is based on what? _______________________
24. How many nitrogenous bases make up a codon? __________
25. What does a codon code for? _________________________
26. Several codons make what? _________________________
27. Which amino acid does the codon UUU code for? _________________________
28. How many different triplet codes can be made with U, C, A, G? __________
29. How many triplets code for amino acids? __________
30. Examining Figure 11-13, how many different amino acids can be created? __________
31. How many codons do not code for amino acids? ________ What do they signal? _________
32. Which amino acid does the codon AUG code for? _________________________
What does it signal? _________________________
33. Can genes be transcribed and translated between species? ________________________
Concept Check 11.4 (p. 237)
2. Which molecule completes the flow of information from DNA to protein?
3. Which amino acid is coded for by the RNA sequence CUA?
4. List two ways RNA is different from DNA.