Transcription and Translation Practice

What is the term for making an RNA copy of DNA?

• Transription

• Translation

• Folding

• Coding

Which of the follwoing best describes the significance of the TATA box in eukaryotic promoters?

• it is the recognition site for a specific transcription factor

• it sets the reading frame of the mRNA

• it is the recognition site for ribosomal binding

• it signals the end of the nucleotide sequence of the gene

Which of the following events in translation is the first to occur in eukaryotes?

• elongation of the polypeptide

• base pairing of activated methionine-tRNA to AUG of the messenger RNA

• binding of the larger ribosomal subunit to smaller ribosomal subunits

• the small subunit of the ribosome recognizing and attaching to the 5'cap

Translation is crucial to the process of making proteins. Which statement best describes what takes place during translation?

• A copy of chromosomal DNA is created 

• Information in mRNA is converted into a sequence of amino acids in a protein 

• A RNA copy of a DNA strand is made.
  

• Instructions from DNA in the nucleus are brought to the cytoplasm 

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Smaller segments of RNA nucleotides that transport amino acids to the ribosomes.

• mRNA

• tRNA

• rRNA

• DNA

What is the three base sequence of mRNA that codes for a single amino acid?

• Anticodon

• Codon

• Protein

In RNA, Uracil pairs with ______. 

• cytosine

• adenine

• guanine

• thymine

Transcribe the following DNA sequence:
TAT GGC ACT 

• TAT GGC ACT

• ATA CCG TGA

• AUA GGC UGA

• UAU GGC ACU

The anticodon is located on 

• DNA

• mRNA

• tRNA

• rRNA

Transcription and Translation Model

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

Ribosome

Translation

mRNA

Cytoplasm

Amino Acid

Transcription

DNA

Protein

tRNA

Nucleus

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1