Genetic code
Cards (37)
- Who is the presenter of the A Level Biology video?
- What are the three key features of the genetic code?
- What is a start codon?
- What does the start codon code for?
- What are the three bases of the start codon on DNA?
- What is the function of a stop codon?
- How many stop codons are there?
- What happens when the ribosome reaches a stop codon?
- What does it mean that the genetic code is degenerate?
- How many different amino acids are there?
- What is the mathematical formula to prove the genetic code's combinations?
- If the genetic code was one base, how many amino acids could it code for?
- If the genetic code was two bases, how many combinations would there be?
- How many combinations does a three-base code provide?
- What is a silent mutation?
- What does it mean that the genetic code is universal?
- Why is the universality of the genetic code important in gene technologies?
- What does non-overlapping mean in the genetic code?
- What is the advantage of a non-overlapping code?
- What are introns?
- What percentage of DNA is made up of introns?
- What are exons?
- What is the difference between the genome and the proteome?
- How does the genome of different organisms vary?
- How many DNA base pairs are in the human genome?
- Why do specialized cells produce different proteins?
- What is gene regulation?
- What was the first hypothesis regarding genes and enzymes?
- Why was the one-gene-one-enzyme hypothesis reconsidered?
- What is haemoglobin's function?
- What is the structure of haemoglobin?
- What hypothesis was proposed after the one-gene-one-enzyme hypothesis?
- What does the one-gene-one-polypeptide hypothesis state?
- What are the characteristics of the triplet codes mentioned in the hypothesis?
- What does each triplet code code for?
- What do amino acids combine to form?
- What are the key features of the one-gene-one-polypeptide hypothesis?