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chapter_14_reading_assignment.docxChapter 14 Reading Assignment (Pages 268-292)
1. Write out the definitions for all the vocabulary terms for Chapter 14. Draw a simple picture or symbol next to each definition to help you remember the word.
2. What is the title of the chapter?
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3. Read the Overview.
What is the link between genotype and phenotype?
What is the process that makes this happen?
4. List the concept titles below and then restate each as a question.
Concept 14.1-
Concept 14.2-
Concept 14.3-
Concept 14.5-
5. Read Concept 14.1 and answer the following questions.
What was Archibald Garrod’s hypothesis?
Describe the experiments that Beadle and Tatum performed.
What was their hypothesis that was supported by these experiments?
What are some the modifications that needed to be made to this hypothesis?
Describe the basic connection between the processes of transcription and translation.
What is a codon?
6. Read Concept 14.2 and answer the following.
What is the purpose of transcription?
What are some of the differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic transcription?
7. Read 14.3 and draw a series of pictures to demonstrate RNA processing that follows transcription.
8. Read Concept 14.4 and develop a mnemonic device to help you remember the order of the process. Describe it below.
9. Read Concept 14.5 and briefly describe how mutations affect protein structure.
10. Read the Summary of Key Concepts and then complete Test Your Understanding #1-8.
