Variation, DNA and Protein Synthesis

Self-Assessment

Variation, DNA and Protein Synthesis Red Orange Green 1 Give the term used to describe the differences in organisms 2 Define the term species.

3 Give an example of a species

4 Define the term heredity

5 Give an example of heredity

6 Define the term gene expression

7 Give an example of gene expression

8 Define a gene

9 Outline the role of a gene

10 Describe the structure of a chromosome

11 Describe the structure of DNA

12 Describe the structure of a Nucleotide 13 Outline the specific purine and pyrimidine couples – complementary base pairs. 14 Name the four bases and the base pairs in DNA

15 Explain Hydrogen bonding

16 Refer to the double helical structure of DNA

17 Distinguish between coding and non-coding structures.

18 Explain why RNA is a complementary structure to DNA

19 Name the bases in RNA

20 Outline the structure of RNA

21 Explain the function of mRNA

22 Describe the triplet base code 23 Outline Chromosome sequencing of coding and non- coding (junk DNA) sequences. 24 Outline DNA replication

25 Outline the steps in protein synthesis 26 Explain how DNA contains the code for protein

27 Understand why enzymes unwind the DNA

28 Explain how this code is transcribed to mRNA

29 Describe the role of RNA polymerase

30 Explain what a codon is 31 Explain how the mRNA code is translated on the ribosome 32 Understand that ribosome is composed of subunits 33 Explain how amino acids are assembled in the correct order determined by the codons on mRNA 34 Understand a stop codon on mRNA signals the release of the protein 35 Understand that the protein folds into its functional shape 36 Give the location of protein synthesis 37 Explain how genes control cell activities by producing proteins 38 Describe the role of RNA polymerase

39 Describe the molecular involvement of DNA, mRNA, tRNA, rRNA and amino acids in the process of protein synthesis