Chapter 15 Key Terms

• p. 336: ribosomes, ribosomal RNA (rRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA)
  
• p. 337: messenger RNA (mRNA), transcription, RNA polymerase, promoter
  
• p. 338: primary RNA transcript, primary transcript
  
• p. 339: translation, codons, reading frame, triplet code
  
• p. 340: anticodon
  
• p. 341: aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, nonsense codons
  
• p. 342: initiation complex, initiation factors
  
• p. 343: elongation factors, translocation, release factors
  
• p. 344: introns, exons, RNA splicing
  
• p. 346: reverse transcriptase