What's On The Replication, Transcription, and Translation Test?

First of all, check out the review sheet in the documents section of the blog.  Read through the statements and make sure that you are familiar with the terms and have the skills.  If you have any questions about it, ask in class or shoot me an e-mail.

Now for the format and specific topics for the test:

• 15-20 multiple choice questions.  Pay attention during the Kahoot review to get an idea of what the questions will be like
• Labeling a replication fork with leading strand, lagging strand, helicase, primer, direction of synthesis, etc.  
• You should also be able to outline the process of replication, using names of the enzymes and correct terminology
• Be able to outline the steps of transcription
• Be able to outline the structure of a nucleosome and its importance in controlling gene expression, including how they are modified by epigenetics (methyl and acetyl markers)
• Be able to outline the process of translation, including assembly of the translation initiation complex, the multiple repeated steps in the process of elongation, and termination
• Be able to write the RNA sequence for a given polypeptide and write the sequence for a polypeptide when given the RNA sequence (I will provide you with the genetic code table, but you need to know how to read it).
• Additionally, I will ask you to add or subtract nucleotides from an RNA sequence and write the resulting RNA sequence and amino acid sequence.