Cancer
DNA Replicaiton
Gene Expression
Genetic Engineering
Vocab
100
A cancer that forms in the epithelial tissues?
What is carcinoma?
100
The piece of a strand of DNA not used to create a strand of RNA.
What is a coding strand?
100
My mother has the homozygous, dominant gene for freckles, and my father has the heterozygous, gene for no freckles. What possible gene combinations could I have?
50% chance FF, and 50% change Ff
100
What is a GMO
A genetically modified organism.
100
A series of events that takes place in a cell as it grows.
What is the cell cycle?
200
A tumor of melanin-forming cells that occurs in melanocytes, also known as skin cancer.
What is a melanoma?
200
What RNA is created in order to make.
What is protein?
200
My father has the the heterozygous gene for dwarfism, and my mother has homozygous, recessive genes to not have dwarfism. How likely am I to not have dwarfism?
I have a 50% chance to have dwarfism.
200
Genetic engineering
process that uses laboratory-based technologies to alter the DNA makeup of an organism.
200
Having a single set of unpaired chromosomes.
What is haploid?
300
A cancer of the lymphatic system.
What is lymphoma?
300
The strand of DNA used to create a new strand of RNA.
What is a template strand?
300
My mom has the homozygous, dominant gene for 7 legs, my dad has the homozygous, recessive gene for 12 legs. How likely am I to have 7 leg?
I have a 100% chance to have 7 legs
300
describe how we have changed fruits like bananas through genetic engineering
for the case of bananas we breed them to have less seeds and to be much bigger as well as producing more.
300
The set of observable characteristics of an induvial resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.
What is a phenotype?
400
Which Cancer is the most likely to affect children
Leukemia
400
The intercellular structure where translation occurs.
What is a ribosome?
400
My parents both have the heterozygous gene to be red. Can I be white?
25%
400
CRISPR
a powerful tool for editing genomes, meaning it allows researchers to easily alter DNA sequences and modify gene function.
400
A gene which in certain circumstances can transform a cell into a tumor cell.
What is an oncogene?
500
Which type of cancer does pancreatic cancer fall under
Pancreatic Cancer
500
The pairings of the four neucleotides.
What are A and U, G and C.
500
What genetic traits does 3 have?
Heterozygous
500
Name something we have cured with CRISPER
CRISPR can cure a number of genetic diseases ranging from blood diseases like sickle cell anemia to cancer.
500
A minute particle consisting of RNA and associated proteins found in large numbers in the cytoplasm of cells.
What is a ribosome?