IB Biology D1.2 Definitions

This page contains our IB Biology definitions for D1.2. By learning each one of these definitions, you will fully cover the content for IB Biology 'Further protein synthesis'.
anticodon

A base sequence complementary to a codon. Often found on tRNA, complementary to mRNA.

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conjugated protein

Proteins with prosthetic groups, often a heme group

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exon

A coding sequence

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intron

A non-coding sequence

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Lamarckism

The belief that acquired characteristics can be inherited

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post-transcriptional modification

The process of splicing exons and removing introns from an mRNA strand after transcription to form mature mRNA for translation

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