Exam 16: How Genes Work

Use this representation to answer the following question. DNA template strand 5' ________ 3' DNA nontemplate strand 3' ________ 5' Given the locally unwound double strand above, in which direction does the RNA polymerase move while transcribing DNA?

Once researchers identified DNA as the unit of inheritance, they asked how information was transferred from the DNA in the nucleus to the site of protein synthesis in the cytoplasm. What is the mechanism of information transfer in eukaryotes?

Codons are part of the molecular structure of ________.

Which of the following observations may have resulted in the hypothesis that a codon is made up of three bases?

The following question(s) refer to this table of codons. -A possible sequence of nucleotides in the template strand of DNA that would code for the polypeptide sequence phe-leu-ile-val would be ________.

Which of the following is an exception to the central dogma?

Which of the following is directly related to a single amino acid?

The proteome is all the proteins produced by an organism. The genome is the totality of all genes of an organism. If the proteome is much larger than the genome, which of the following statements would be accurate?