ELL DNA Vocab Practice

A chain of amino acids, make proteins

• Polypeptides

• Ribosome

• Synthesis

• Nucleus

A building block for protein

• Nucleotide
• Fatty acid
• Carbohydrate
• Amino acid

One or more folded polypeptides, chains of amino acids

• Carbohydrate
• Protein
• Lipid
• Nucleic acid

To make or build

• synthesis

• transcription

• polymerase

• destroy

DNA code that is copied to make mRNA

• tRNA
• rRNA
• mRNA
• DNA

The enzyme that builds mRNA

• Ribosome
• Helicase
• RNA polymerase
• DNA polymerase

Proteins are made here

• Mitochondria
• Nucleus
• Golgi apparatus
• Ribosomes

A protein is made at the ribosome using mRNA and tRNA

• Translation

• Codon

• Anticodon

• Transcription

Messenger RNA, takes the DNA code to a ribosome

• mRNA

• tRNA

• DNA

• sRNA

3 bases on mRNA that code for an amino acid

• Triplet
• Anticodon
• Peptide
• Codon