Terms to be familiar with before you start to solve the test: the genetic code, codon, degenerate codons, protein synthesis, aminoacyl-tRNA, anticodon, antiparallel orientation, wobble, unambiguous codons, ribosomes, initiation, elongation and termination of translation, peptidyl transferase, translocation, degenerate oligonucleotides, green fluorescent protein, expression plasmid, cDNA, electron microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, phase contrast microscopy, bacteriophage, promoter, gene library, Northern blotting, Western blotting, "in silico" analysis, and hairpin structures. (Contains 2 figures, 1 footnote and 1 table.)