JENGA questions
1. Why is DNA considered Anti-Parallel?
2. What is the DNA backbone composed of? What type of bonds hold it together?
3. Explain one difference between DNA and RNA?
4. Why is DNA considered negatively charged?
5. What bases are considered pyramidines?
6. Why does adenine bond with thymine only?
7. Why is DNA considered semi-conservative?
8. What is the function of DNA Helicase and DNA gyrase?
9. What is the function of Single Stranded Binding Proteins?
10. Would DNA replication occur without RNA primase? Why or why not?
11. What is the difference between the leading and lagging strand?
12. What can DNA polymerase I and III do that RNA polymerase cannot?
13. What is meant by the statement “one gene, one enzyme”?
14. Why should proteins not exist?
15. What are the 3 types of RNA?
16. What occurs in the initiation phase of transcription?
17. What occurs in the elongation phase of transcription?
18. What occurs in the termination phase of transcription?
19. What post-transcriptional modifications occur?
20. What is ‘interesting’ about the coding strand?
21. What is the difference between a codon and anti-codon?
22. Explain how to use the Genetic Code table
23. What is the wobble effect?
24. What is start codon and AA of every protein?
25. What is the function of tRNA?
26. True or false: every tRNA is specific to an AA
27. What is the structure of the ribosome?
28. Which direction does the ribosome read the mRNA strand?
29. What is the difference between the function of the P site and A site in the ribosome?
30. What occurs in the initiation phase of translation?
31. What occurs in the elongation phase of translation?
32. What occurs in the termination phase of translation?
33. What allows the polypeptide chain to be cleaved from the final tRNA molecule?
34. What are the two components of a virus?
35. Are viruses considered to be alive? Why or why not?
36. What is the difference between the capsid and the envelope?
37. In basic terms, how does a virus reproduce?
38. What does acronym HIV stand for?
39. What kind of virus is HIV? What does that mean?
40. Why does HIV only attack T-cells?
41. Differentiate between a receptor and a ligand.
42. How does HIV enter the T-cell?
43. Once inside of the host T-cell, how does HIV create a new HIV virus?
44. What does the HIV DNA produce?
45. What is the name of the HIV therapy?
46. Why is HIV difficult to detect?
47. What does the acronym AIDS stand for
48. What is the current theory on how HIV introduce to humans?
49. What is silent mutation? Give example.
50. What is missense mutation? Give example.
51. What is nonsense mutation? Give example.
52. What is translocation mutation? Give example.
53. What is frameshift mutation? Give example.
54. What is inversion mutation? Give example.