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1. Major steps of the central dogma and their products - ANSWER
Replication (DNA), transcriptin (RNA), translation (protein)
2. What are DNA polymerases copying? - ANSWER the DNA strands
3. What makes a DNA strand leading vs lagging? - ANSWER The
antiparallel characteristics
4. What is a promoter? - ANSWER Binding site for RNA polymerase,
starting point
5. What do transcription factors do? - ANSWER Increase or decrease
gene expression
6. What are enhancers? - ANSWER Region of DNA that increase a
promoters effectiveness
7. What is a codon? - ANSWER Three base pairs that code for an AA
, 8. What does a codon correspond to? - ANSWER Anticodon
9. Where does translation occur? - ANSWER ribosome
10. What carries amino acids to the polypeptide chain? - ANSWER tRNA
11. What bond is formed between amino acids in a growing polypeptide
chain? - ANSWER Peptide bond
12. What enzyme forms the polypeptide chain? - ANSWER Peptidyl
transferase
13. Gene expression generates - ANSWER RNA or protein
14. Indirect transcriptional regulation - ANSWER Mediated indirectly, "cell
signaling", mediator on cell surface
15. Direct transcriptional regulation - ANSWER Regulatory signals bind
directly to intracellular receptors, INTRACELLULAR
16. What does splicing do? - ANSWER Generates multiple related proteins
from a single gene; isoforms
17. Exons - ANSWER Coded