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Mention the role of the codons AUG and UGA during protein synthesis.

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AUG acts as initiation codon and codes for methionine, UGA acts as termination codon and codes none of the amino acids
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ICSE-MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE-PRACTICE QUESTIONS (VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
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  3. Mention the role of the codons AUG and UGA during protein synthesis.

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  4. In which direction is the leading strand synthesised during DNA synthe...

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  5. What is the base pairing pattern of DNA?

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  6. Name the enzyme which can do proof reading during DNA synthesis in bac...

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  7. Name the initiation codon for protein synthesis. Name the amino acid i...

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  8. What is the function of amino-acyl-tRNA synthetase?

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  9. What is the function of ligase?

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  10. Name the process in which the unwanted mRNA regions are removed and th...

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  11. Mention the role of DNA polymerase other than polymerising deoxyribonu...

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  12. What is nucleosome?

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  13. Give chemical name for thymine.

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  14. Name the technique used in making copies of a specific segment of DNA

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  15. Due to an error during transcription, ATG of DNA formed UAG in mRNA. W...

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  16. While an mRNA strand is being translated in the ribosome subunit, the ...

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  17. Name the components ‘a’ and ‘b’ in the nucleotide with a purine below

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  18. Name the technique used for separating DNA fragments in the laboratory...

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  19. Why hnRNA' is required to undergo splicing

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  20. Mention the two addition processing which hnRNA needs to undergo after...

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