A section of DNA that contains instructions for one particular protein
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How do cells make proteins?
By joining amino acids in a particular order
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What tells cells which order to put amino acids together in?
The order of the bases in a gene
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What is a set of 3 bases called?
A triplet
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What is each set of three bases a code for?
One amino acid
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What makes proteins?
Organelles called ribosomes
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Where are proteins made?
In the cell cytoplasm
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How does information from the DNA get to the ribosome?
A copy of the DNA is made using messenger RNA
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How is the ribosome and messenger RNA used to make proteins?
1) The two strands unzip and messenger RNA is made using a strand of DNA as a template. 2)The messenger RNA moves out of the nucleus and joins with a ribosome in the cytoplasm 3)The ribosome joins amino acids together in a chain to make proteins
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