Vocab

Anticodon- a triplet of nucleotides in rna designation a specific amino acid that binds to a corresponding codon in rna during protein synthesis

Codon- a sequence of three adjacent nucleotides constituting the genetic code that specifies the insertion of an amino acid

Exon-a nucleic acid sequence that is represented in mature form of an rna molecule either after portions of a precursor

Genetic Code-is a set of rules by which information encoded in genetic material is translated into proteins by living cells.

Intron- are nucleotides sequences within genes that are removed by rna splicing to generate the final mature

mRNA (messenger RNA)-is a molecule of rna encoding a chemical “Blueprint”

Promoter-a regulatory region of dna located up stream of a gene

Protein-coding Gene- transcribes into Mrna

Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)- one of the three major macromolecules that are essential for all known form of life

RNA polymerase-is an enzym that produces Rna.

rRNA (ribosomal RNA)-is the rna component of the ribosome

Transcription- is the process of creating a complementary Rna copy of a sequence of dna

Translation- an act of translating some thing

tRNA (transfer RNA)-is rna that transfers a specific active amino acids