Transcription Worksheet
1. What are the bases in DNA?
2. How do the bases pair up?
3. What are the bases in RNA?
What RNA nitrogen bases match with the following DNA nitrogen bases?
ATGC
4. If this is a sequence of one DNA strand, what is the RNA sequences that would bond
with this DNA sequence?
ATTCAGCGA
5. How are DNA and mRNA alike?
6. How are DNA and mRNA different?
7. If the following were part of a DNA chain, what mRNA bases would pair with it to
transcribe the DNA code onto mRNA?
G-G-A-T-C-G-C-C-T-T-A-G-A-A-T-C
Imagine you have the following strands of DNA. Go through the process of transcription and
translation and build the correct protein.
DNA
mRNA
DNA
C
A
T
T
A
T
G
G
T
C
C
C
C
A
G
G
T
C
G
C
A
A
T
C
T
A
T
A
G
G
DNA
mRNA
DNA
G
A
T
C
G
C
C
C
G
T
A
T
A
C
T
G
G
A
G
T
A
A
T
T
T
C
G
A
A
C
mRNA
mRNA