Biology  by Bradford
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Transcription and translation: grass skirts

15 quick questions on AP Biology topics 6.3 Transcription and RNA Processing and 6.4 Translation, each answered in a word or two. Print a sheet for each team, a key for the checker and a tick sheet, then tape the sheets to the board and race.

How it runs

  1. SnipA runner cuts one strip off the bottom of their team’s sheet.
  2. Answer as a pairBack at the table, they write the answer on the strip. No books.
  3. Get it checkedThe checker reads it against the key: you, or a student holding it.
  4. Back for the nextA tick earns the next strip. Wrong? Back to the table to try again.

The questions on this sheet

The checker’s key, with every answer, prints with the sheets.
  1. Copying a gene's code into RNA
  2. Enzyme that transcribes from a promoter
  3. Upstream DNA where transcription starts
  4. Copy of a gene carried to the ribosome
  5. Noncoding stretch spliced out of pre-mRNA
  6. Segment kept and expressed in mature mRNA
  7. Building a polypeptide at the ribosome
  8. mRNA triplet specifying an amino acid
  9. tRNA triplet that pairs with mRNA
  10. Adapter molecule bringing amino acids
  11. Triplet ending translation, e.g. UAA
  12. DNA chain read by RNA polymerase
  13. One gene, several proteins by exon choice
  14. Modified G added to the start of mRNA
  15. Added to the 3′ end of mRNA to protect it

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