Tuesday, May 17, 2016

DNA and Proteins Quiz - Thursday, 5/19/16

Use the following to guide your review for Thursday's quiz.
The best way to review is to practice! Use your classwork assignments as a guide. Can you re-do the work you did in class on your own?

Be able to:
___ Describe the shape of a DNA molecule
___ Explain how DNA is organized in a cell's nucleus 
___ Name the building block of nucleic acids (DNA, RNA)
___ Describe what that building block is made up of
___ Identify DNA base pairs

___ Name the building block of proteins
___ Explain how DNA is linked to a person's traits
___ Explain the process of DNA coding for proteins
(What is made? Where does it happen in a cell?)

___ Create a complementary RNA sequence from a given DNA sequence
___ Read an amino acid table 
___ Use an RNA sequence and an amino acid table to write an amino acid sequence

Resources:
-Chapter 6 Section 1 - for the structure of DNA
-Chapter 6 Section 2 - for protein synthesis 
Classwork:
-DNA Notes
-Transcription
-Decoding mRNA
-Codon Bingo
-Snorks activity