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Which sugar is found in all RNA molecules?

Ribose

What is different about a pair a homologous chromosomes?

The alleles they carry

What does universal mean?

Each triplet codes for the same amino acid in all organisms

What is a codon?

A sequence of 3 bases

What does degenerate mean?

Each amino acid can be coded for by more than one triplet

State 3 features of tRNA

Clover-leaf shape, Amino acid attachment point, anticodon, hydrogen bonds

Which nucleic acid is the most stable?

DNA

What is the combination of DNA and a histone called?

Nucleosome

What does non-overlapping mean?

Each base sequence is read only once

What shape is mRNA?

Single helix

Which type of RNA is found in the nucleus?

mRNA / pre mRNA

What are coding sequences called?

Exons

What is an anticodon

A sequence of 3 bases on a tRNA molecule

Which amino acid is coded for first in all polypeptides

Methionine

Which type of RNA has a fixed length?

tRNA

What is an allele?

Different form of the same gene

What is a gene

A bases sequences that codes for a polypeptide

What is an intron?

Non coding sequence

State one difference between prokaroytic and eukaryotic DNA

Histones, length, size

How is the shape of tRNA described?

Clover leaf

How many nucleotides make up a tRNA molecule

80

How does the stability of mRNA compare to tRNA

mRNA less stable

What is the same about a pair of homologous chromosomes

The genes they carry

Which nucleic acid is the largest?

DNA

What is the proteome of a cell?

All the proteins produced by the genome

What is a locus

A particular location on a DNA molecule

Which protein is DNA coiled around?

Histone

What is the genome of an organism?

All the genes in the cell