<p> Variation, DNA and Protein Synthesis </p><p>Self-Assessment</p><p>Variation, DNA and Protein Synthesis Red Orange Green 1 Give the term used to describe the differences in organisms 2 Define the term species.</p><p>3 Give an example of a species</p><p>4 Define the term heredity</p><p>5 Give an example of heredity</p><p>6 Define the term gene expression</p><p>7 Give an example of gene expression</p><p>8 Define a gene</p><p>9 Outline the role of a gene</p><p>10 Describe the structure of a chromosome</p><p>11 Describe the structure of DNA</p><p>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</p><p>15 Explain Hydrogen bonding</p><p>16 Refer to the double helical structure of DNA</p><p>17 Distinguish between coding and non-coding structures. </p><p>18 Explain why RNA is a complementary structure to DNA </p><p>19 Name the bases in RNA </p><p>20 Outline the structure of RNA</p><p>21 Explain the function of mRNA</p><p>22 Describe the triplet base code 23 Outline Chromosome sequencing of coding and non- coding (junk DNA) sequences. 24 Outline DNA replication</p><p>25 Outline the steps in protein synthesis 26 Explain how DNA contains the code for protein</p><p>27 Understand why enzymes unwind the DNA</p><p>28 Explain how this code is transcribed to mRNA</p><p>29 Describe the role of RNA polymerase</p><p>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</p><p>39 Describe the molecular involvement of DNA, mRNA, tRNA, rRNA and amino acids in the process of protein synthesis</p>