DNA and RNA
The acid that contains the instructions on how an organism is built and maintained.
What is DNA?
The disease where the cells start uncontrollably reproducing causing tumors.
What is cancer?
A gene that is masked by a dominant gene.
What is recessive gene?
The series of stages a cell enters when preforming mitosis.
What is cell cycle?
Reproductive technique that requires the fertilization of an egg.
What is sexual reproduction?
The shape of DNA.
What is double helix?
A growth that stays at it's origin and doesn't spread.
What is a benign tumor?
A square diagram made to predict the out come of different genotypes.
What is a Punnett square.
The part of the cell cycle that lasts the longest and where the replicates it's DNA in preparation for mitosis.
What is interphase?
The process of the male reproductive cell entering a female reproductive cell.
What is fertilization?
When there is a mistake during the replication of DNA.
What is mutation?
A growth that spreads through out the body.
What is a malignant tumor?
The term for an organism with modified genes
What is GMO (genetically modified organism)?
The part of the cell cycle when the cell splits apart.
What is cell division and or cytokinesis?
The male reproductive cell that fertilizes the female reproduction cell.
What is sperm?
Organelles that come in two pieces that bind mRNA and tRNA together.
What is a ribosome?
Genes that cause a cell to become cancerous.
What is proto oncogene?
The term for an organism that has the genetic material of another organism.
What is transgenic organism?
When an reproduces by making an copy of it self by itself.
What is asexual reproduction?
The female reproduction cell that gets fertilized by the male reproduction cell.
What is egg?
The entirety of genetic information that makes up an organism.
What is Genome?
The cancer treatment that involves injecting one or more drugs into the body, usually has the side effect of hair loss.
What is Chemotherapy?
A gene that represents it self more than a recessive gene.
What is dominant gene?
Any cells that are not used for sexual reproduction.
What is somatic cells?
A thread like structure the is made up of nucleic acids and proteins contained with in the nucleus of a cell.
What is a chromosome?