Vocab 9

Single-Stranded nucleic acid that contains sugar ribose.

• Transfer RNA

• Mutation

• Polyploidy

• RNA

Collection of codons of mRNA, each of which directs the incorporation of a particular amino acid into a protein during protein synthesis

• Anticodon

• Genetic Code

• Transcription

• Operator

Group of homeotic genes clustered together that determine the head and tail identity of body parts in animals. All contain homeobox DNA sequences.

• Hox Gene

• Operon

• Intron

• Differentiation

Specific Region of a gene where RNA plolymerase can bind and begin transcription.

• Codon

• Exon

• Promoter

• Operator

Gene mutation in which a single base pair in DNA has been changed.

• Point Mutation

• Frameshift Mutation

• Messenger RNA

• Ribosomal RNA

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Type of RNA that carries each amino acid to a ribosome during protein synthesis.

• Transcription

• Messenger RNA

• Transfer RNA

• RNA

Condition in which an organism has extra sets of chromosomes.

• mutation

• polyploidy

• transcription

• anticodon

in prokaryotes, a group of adjacent genes that shares a common operator and promoter and are transcribed into a single mRNA

• Exon

• Homeotic Gene

• Translation

• Operon

Synthesis of an RNA molecule from a DNA template

• Transcription

• Mutation

• Translation

• Codon

Long chain of amino acids that makes proteins

• Exon

• Intron

• Polypeptide

• Anticodon

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1