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Introduction to DNA and RNA

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Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Question 2.1

SAQ: Look at the pictures above to fill in this Venn Diagram:

Note: Draw your sketch in the sketchpad below

Question 2.2

Fill out the table below using information from the pictures and table above:

Question 2.3

What is the primary function of RNA? Of DNA?

Question 2.4

SAQ: Given the last row of the previous question, why do you think it’s important for the DNA to stay in the nucleus and for RNA to be able to leave?

Question 2.5

If DNA can’t leave the nucleus and protein is made in the cytoplasm of cells at ribosomes (protein synthesis factories), how do the instructions from the DNA get to the ribosomes?

Question 2.6

Fill in the following table about 3 types of RNA involved in protein synthesis. (open this link in a new tab, right click or 2-finger click, and look up the full names of these RNAs and their functions (what they do).

Notes

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