a) A gene is usually ____.

1. the information for making a polypeptide

2. made by a ribosome

3. the same thing as a chromosome

4. made of RNA

5. made of protein

b)Which one of the following events occurs during transcription?

1. mRNA binds to a ribosome in the cytoplasm.

2. a cap is added to the RNA molecule

3. the message in mRNA is translated into a protein

4. a molecule of RNA is formed based on the sequence of nucleotides in DNA

5. those segments of the RNA strand do not actually code for the protein are removed