Download DNA intro website questions

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DNA Computer Lab
-Objective: Use the website www.johnkyrk.com to explorer DNA/
RNA (Replication, Transcription, and Translation)
-Follow these steps in order to complete this lab.
-Go to the website www.johnkyrk.com . Visit the following sub titles
to answer the following questions.
(Amino Acids and Proteins)
1. What are the building blocks for Proteins?
2. How many amino acids regularly occur in proteins?
(Chromosome Structure)
3. What is a nucleosome?
(DNA structure)
4. What does DNA stand for?
5. What are the two purines?
6. What are the two pyrimidines?
7. The human genome contains over_____________
base pairs.
(DNA Replication)
8. What splits the strands of DNA apart?
9. How many hydrogen bonds are between adenine
and thymine?
10. How many hydrogen bonds are between Guanine
and Cytosine?
(DNA Transcription)
11. What is the product of transcription?
12. What is mRNA an exact code for?
(Review Questions)
13. What are the sub units that DNA is made of?
14. What are the three parts of a nucleotide?
15. What are three differences between RNA and
DNA?
16. How many common Amino Acids are there?
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