Homework 1 Name: Alison Lee__ PSYC 4350 - Heredity and Behavior Due April 16th. (Note all homework should be typed however, you can draw the Punnett Square and fill in the chart by hand).

1. (3 points). Describe the process by which proteins are constructed based on the instructions from the DNA. Use terms mRNA, tRNA, ribosome, nucleus, amino acids, codons, anti-codons, transcription and translation in your answer.

Start where DNA begins to unzip and be transcribed by mRNA. Describe the fact that the mRNA leaves the cell nucleus and attracts a ribosome. Describe that in the ribosome the mRNA reads 3 letters at a type (codons) codons are matched up with their opposite letter sequence of the anticodon known as tRNA. At the end of the tNRA is the amino acid is...