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Name:_______________________________Class:___________________Date:____________________

From DNA to Proteins

Vocabulary Practice
Answer Key
A. Compound Word Puzzle C. Secret Message
1. base pairing rules; Sample answer: A pairs
1. RNA polymerase
with T, C with G
2. frameshift mutation
2. central dogma; Sample answer: DNA to
3. exon
RNA to proteins
4. ribosomal RNA
3. anticodon; Sample answer: found on a tRNA
5. point mutation
molecule
6. mutagen
4. intron; Sample answer: region of mRNA
7. nucleotide
removed during processing
8. translation
5. mRNA; Sample answer: a product of
9. promoter
transcription
6. mutation; Sample answer: may or may not D. DNA Adventure! Across
affect a protein 2. translation
7. nucleotide; Sample answer: consists of a 4. nucleotide
sugar, a phosphate group, and a 5. ribosomal RNA
nitrogen-containing base 12. transcription
8. exon; Sample answer: spliced together 15. intron
during mRNA processing 16. double helix
17. base pairing
B. Find the Odd Word
1. mutagen; Sample answer: Both rRNA and Down
tRNA are types of RNA. 1. point mutation
2. replication; Sample answer: mRNA has 3. replication
codons. 6. anticodon
3. central dogma; Sample answer: Mutagens 7. transfer RNA
may cause mutations. 8. DNA polymerase
4. double helix; Sample answer: A frameshift 9. central dogma
mutation disrupts the reading frame of the 10. bacteriophage
codons. 11. mutation
5. bacteriophage; Sample answer: RNA 13. stop codon
polymerase is one of the major enzymes 14. promoter
involved in transcription.

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Biology 1 From DNA to Proteins


Name:_______________________________Class:___________________Date:____________________
From DNA to Proteins

Vocabulary Practice
bacteriophage double helix base pairing rules
nucleotide DNA polymerase central dogma
replication

A. Compound Word Puzzle Read the phrase and write the word that it most
closely describes. Then write another phrase that describes the same word in a
different way.
PHRASE 1 WORD PHRASE 2
error that throws off the Example caused by insertion or
reading frame of an frameshift mutation deletion of nucleotides
mRNA sequence

explains Chargaff’s 1.
rules

states that genetic 2.


information flows in one
direction
a change in an 3.
organism’s DNA

monomer that makes up 4.


nucleic acids

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Biology 2 From DNA to Proteins


Name:_______________________________Class:___________________Date:____________________
B. DNA Adventure! Solve the clues by filling in the words in the
numbered squares.
Across Down
4. A, C, G, and T in DNA; A, C, G, 1. a change in a single nucleotide in
and U in RNA DNA
16. three-dimensional model developed 3. the process of making a copy of
by Watson and Crick DNA
17. the rules that explain how 8. major enzyme involved in
nucleotides interact with each other replication
9. describes the flow of genetic
information
10. used by Hershey and Chase in their
experiments

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Biology 3 From DNA to Proteins

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