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What is helicase?
Breaks hydrogen bonds connecting DNA bases during DNA replication.
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What is ligase?
The "glue" that sticks the lagging strands together.
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What is a charged tRNA?
Brings the amino acid to the translating ribosome.
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What are introns?
Removed during post-transcription modification.
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What is RNA polymerase?
Stop codons inhibit this.
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What is topoisomerase?
Reduces strain on the DNA strand during replication.
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What is the leading strand?
DNA that is transcribed in the 3' to 5' direction.
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What are bacteria/prokaryotes?
Transcription and translation occur simultaneously in these organisms.
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What is the poly A tail?
Protects mRNA from degradation at the 3' end.
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What is an enhancer?
These can be found upstream or down stream of a gene.
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What is Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty experiment?
Discovered that DNA was the transforming agent for Griffith's experiment.
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What is monocistronic?
One open reading frame.
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What is the E site?
The site where the tRNA leaves the ribosome.
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What is splicing?
Removal of portions of the mRNA is referred to as this.
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Who are Watson and Crick?
Discovered the DNA double helix.
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What is the Hershey-Chase experiment?
Reiterated the point that DNA was the transforming agent and DNA was not.
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What are bacteria/prokaryotes?
Polycistronic DNA transcription occurs in these organisms.
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What is the cytosol/cytoplasm?
The site of translation in prokaryotes.
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What is alternative splicing?
Eukaryotes increase protein production through this mechanism.
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What are insertion mutations?
Addition of an additional nucleotide into the genome?
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Who is Griffith?
First individual to conclude that cells contained transforming material.
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What is exonuclease of RNA polymerase?
Removes incorrect nucleotides.
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What is the promoter?
Eukaryotic translation start site.
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What is the 5' cap?
Eukaryotes increase protein production through this mechanism.
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What are gene duplications?
Provide additional material for natural selection to act on.
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