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Chapter 10 Reading HW
Chapter 10 Reading HW
b) Is the new RNA strand the same as it was coming off the original
DNA template?
Why?
8. A DNA template strand has the sequence 5ATG-GTGTACG3 What will be
the sequence of the RNA transcribed from this DNA? (Be careful to specify
the 5 and 3 ends and remember there are no Ts in RNA).
9. Now that we have an mRNA strand coded from a DNA template, what
happens next?
10. Each mRNA strand uses each set of 3 bases called __________________
(there are _______ of them) to code for the proper amino acid (there are
_______ amino acids).
11. A particular eukaryotic protein is 1200 amino acids long. In order to find
out how many nucleotides in DNA that codes for this protein, think of how
many bases code for ONE amino acid. Then multiply that number by the
1200 above. How many nucleotides in DNA code for this protein?
___________.
12. What are the 4 main type of DNA mutations? Give a short description of
each.
13. A deletion of two consecutive base pairs in the coding region of DNA
causes a frame-shift mutation. A deletion of three consecutive base pairs
causes the deletion of only one amino acid, with the rest of the polypeptide
chain intact. Explain why this is so.
14. In the e-book or the book companion site, click on Animated Tutorial
10.4 and go through the 6 steps of translation. (Or use the textbook to
describe the 3 steps starting on pg. 201.)
15.
c) What is the code of bases called on the tRNA molecule, and what do
they match up
with?
d) If a tRNA molecule has a code for AUG, what code would it match
up with on the
mRNA strand?
16. Make a sketch below of the ribosome sandwiching an mRNA strand. Be
sure to label the 3 sites. Which site does the first tRNA enter to bond with
the mRNA strand? Site _________. Now draw a tRNA carrying an amino acid,
and point to which site it will enter.
17. In translation, once the P and A sites of the ribosome are occupied, the
amino acids are bonded, what happens next?