Protein Synthesis

Nucleic acid with a single strand

• DNA

• RNA

• Intron

• Exon

RNA molecule that carries copies of instructions for amino acids from the DNA to the rest of the cell

• transfer RNA (tRNA)
• ribosomal RNA (rRNA)
• deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
• messenger RNA (mRNA)

Type of RNA that makes up the major part of ribosomes

• rRNA
• DNA
• tRNA
• mRNA

RNA molecule that transfers amino acids to ribosomes

• tRNA
• mRNA
• rRNA
• DNA

A section of DNA that does not code for protein, junk DNA

• Functional DNA
• Gene-coding DNA
• Exon

• Intron

 Nitrogenous base only found on RNA

• Thymine
• Cytosine
• Adenine
• Uracil

Long chain of amino acids that makes protein

• Nucleotide
• mRNA

• Anticodon

• Polypeptide

Expressed sequence of DNA that codes for a protein

• Exon

• Intron

• Anticodon

• Promoter

Enzyme that separates the DNA strands and makes a complementary mRNA

• RNA Polymerase

• Intron

• Exon

• RNA

Group of bases on tRNA molecule that are complementary to an mRNA codon

• Codon

• Anti-codon

• RNA Polymerase

• Uracil