| A | B |
| adenine:guanine as | thymine:cytosine |
| adenine:thymine as | guanine:purine |
| DNA:nucleotide as | karyotype : chromosomes |
| autosomes:nonmatching as | sex chromosomes:homologous |
| process of manufacturing proteins | protein synthesis |
| carries coded instructions for proteins | messenger RNA |
| makes up the ribosome with other proteins | ribosomal RNA |
| section of three bases in tRNA that complement an RNA codon | codon |
| section of three bases in tRNA that complement an amino acid | anticodon |
| transfer of information from DNA to RNA | transcription |