AFTER YOU HAVE read about protein synthesis in your excerpt from the Cartoon Guide
to Genetics, answer the following questions.
1. What is the relationship between genes and proteins?
2. How does RNA differ from DNA?
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3. What is the molecule that carries the information from a gene to the place
where a protein will be made?
4. What is the process by which such a molecule is made?.
5. What is the enzyme that mediates the process named above?.
6. What is the structure on which proteins are made?.
7. How many bases form one "word" of the RNA message?
8. What is the technical name for such a group of bases found on mRNA?
9. What is another term for protein synthesis?
10. What is the group of molecules that translates the genetic code?
11. What is an anticodon?
12. At the tail end of each tRNA molecule, an
attaches the appropriate
molecule to the tRNA.
13. What happens when two tRNAs are side by side on a ribosome?
14. The first codon on an mRNA always is.
15. This codes for the amino acid called