VOCABULARY
What are chromosomes?
The only people who can have the same DNA.
What are identical twins?
Large molecules that help cells function.
What are proteins?
It took __ years to map the entire human genome.
What is 13?
_________ is a mutation (and a disease).
What is cancer?
Will always cause a particular characteristic to show.
What is dominant?
Share 98% of the same genes as chimpanzees.
What are humans?
The smallest possible amounts of particular substances.
What are molecules?
Comes from the words gene and chromosome.
What is genome?
DNA contains about ____________ genes.
What is 30,000?
Causing or relating to a characteristic or condition that the offspring will only have if both parents have it.
What is recessive?
Friedrich Miescher
Who discovered DNA?
Double Helix
What are the shape formed by 2 parallel lines that twist together?
_________________ is called Mitosis.
What is DNA replication?
Small sections of DNA that tell our cells to make different proteins.
What are genes?
All of the genes and genetic information within an organism.
What is a genome?
A scientist who discovered that traits pass from parents to offspring through pairs of genes.
Who was Gregor Mendel?
Four bases on a DNA strand.
What are nucleotides?
___________ eyes are dominant in humans.
What is brown?
Every gene makes ___________ proteins.
What is different?
A substance that carries genetic information in the cells of living things.
What is DNA?
Dolly the sheep was cloned in ____.
When was 1996?
To solve crimes, crime labs take samples of a suspect's DNA. If it matches the DNA at the crime scene they know the suspect was there. This is called...
What is DNA evidence?
Blue eyes are recessive in _________.
What are humans?
DNA can make about _____________ different kinds of proteins.
What is 50,000?