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1. Introduction to Genetics51m
2. Mendel's Laws of Inheritance3h 37m
3. Extensions to Mendelian Inheritance2h 41m
4. Genetic Mapping and Linkage2h 28m
5. Genetics of Bacteria and Viruses1h 21m
6. Chromosomal Variation1h 48m
7. DNA and Chromosome Structure56m
8. DNA Replication1h 10m
9. Mitosis and Meiosis1h 34m
10. Transcription1h 0m
11. Translation58m
12. Gene Regulation in Prokaryotes1h 19m
13. Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes44m
14. Genetic Control of Development44m
15. Genomes and Genomics1h 50m
16. Transposable Elements47m
17. Mutation, Repair, and Recombination1h 6m
18. Molecular Genetic Tools19m
- Genetic Cloning
  9m
- Methods for Analyzing DNA
  9m
19. Cancer Genetics29m
- Overview of Cancer
  21m
- Cancer Mutations
  7m
20. Quantitative Genetics1h 26m
21. Population Genetics50m
- Hardy Weinberg
  19m
- Allelic Frequency Changes
  31m
22. Evolutionary Genetics29m

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Multiple Choice

Which process involves the decoding of an mRNA sequence to produce a polypeptide chain?

Replication

Translation

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Splicing

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Understand the central dogma of molecular biology, which describes the flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to protein.

Recall that replication is the process of copying DNA to produce identical DNA molecules, so it does not involve mRNA or polypeptides.

Recognize that transcription is the process where DNA is used as a template to synthesize messenger RNA (mRNA), but no polypeptide is produced at this stage.

Identify that splicing is a modification process where introns are removed from the pre-mRNA transcript to produce mature mRNA, but it does not involve decoding or polypeptide synthesis.

Conclude that translation is the process where the mRNA sequence is decoded by the ribosome to assemble amino acids into a polypeptide chain, which is the correct answer.