Your Patient Has a Fever of 39^oC, Sore Throat, Cough

Multiple Choice

Your patient has a fever of 39^oC, sore throat, cough, and chest pain. You ask her whether she has had pneumococcal vaccine this year, which protects against the the 23 most common strains of the causative bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. She says she has not. Your patient has a number of questions that you answer to help her understand the genetics of the organism causing her illness.
-You give your patient some general information on gene expression in cells. You explain that when cells divide, two processes are involved: replication and gene expression. Gene expression includes two related events: (i) copying the information encoded in DNA into RNA, a process called ________, followed by (ii) the interpretation of the information carried by the RNA to synthesize the encoded protein in a process called ________.

A) transcription; translation
B) translation, transcription
C) replication; transcription
D) replication; translation
E) binary fission; transcription