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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?
DNA: A T G C
RNA:
4. If this is a sequence of one DNA strand, what is the RNA sequences that would bond with
this DNA sequence?
DNA: A T T C A G C G A
RNA:
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?
DNA: G G A T C G C C T T A G A A T C
RNA:
8. What is Transcription?
9. Where does Transcription take place in a Eukaryotic cell?
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Imagine you have the following strands of DNA. Go through the process of transcription to
transfer the DNA code to RNA, in other words, create the correct mRNA sequence from the DNA
sequence.
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