5 - Transcription and Translation (Protein Synthesis)
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Practice Questions
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What is the purpose of transcription?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens in the nucleus.
What does tRNA do?
💡 Hint: It's like a delivery service for building blocks.
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What is the first step of protein synthesis?
💡 Hint: It happens in the nucleus.
True or False: tRNA brings amino acids to the ribosome.
💡 Hint: Think about the function of tRNA.
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Explain the consequence of a mutation that changes a stop codon to a different amino acid codon in a gene sequence.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens when instructions in a recipe are altered.
Describe how the process of transcription would differ if RNA polymerase were to malfunction.
💡 Hint: Think about the role of RNA polymerase in reading the DNA.
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