UNIVERSITY OF THE CORDILLERAS

GOV. PACK ROAD, BAGUIO CITY

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

ASSIGNMENT # 8 EXERCISE OF THE CENTRAL DOGMA

NAME: ______________________________________________ DATE: _________________________

SCHEDULE: __________________________________________

INSTRUCTION: APPLY THE CONCEPTS OF THE REPLICATION, TRANSCRIPTION AND

TRANSLATION

1. Oxytoxin is a hormone that stimulates the uterus to contract during childbirth. The following is
a DNA sequence that code for a part of its molecule.

DNA strand: TAC ATA TAG CTT ACG GGG AAC CCC TTT ACT

a. If the strand of DNA is replicated the complementary strand is….

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b. What mRNA would be transcribed by the original DNA strand?

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c. What tRNA would be synthesized by the mRNA segment?

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d. The protein synthesized after translation will have an amino sequence of…

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2. List the base sequence in the segment of DNA involved in the following amino acid sequence:
leucine – phenylalaline – glutamine – valine – lysine - aspartic acid - alanine. Use the first codon of each
amino acid given.

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