Monday, January 7, 2008

A new year

OK see we started the new year off by beginning the Chapter on DNA and RNA and all their quirks. I will post the overview below. I hope everyone had a great break and now are ready to work with finals 2 weeks away!!!

Also next week will be the start for my student teacher. His name is Chris Graham. He wont take the classes over until after finals but he will be your teacher very soon. I cant wait to meet him and hopefully having an extra pair of hands will really help us!!!

More tomorrow!


Chapter 12 Overview


Key Terms : Transformation Exon
Replication Intron
Protein Synthesis Gene
Messenger RNA Mutation
Transfer RNA Polypoidy
Transcription Operon
Codon Differentiation
Translation Anticodon




Questions:


1) What makes up DNA?




2) How are DNA and RNA similar? How are they different?




3) Explain the process of protein synthesis.



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4) Why are Watson and Crick so important to genetics?






5) Explain the process of Replication?