DNA & RNA
Nucleic Acids
DNA Replication
Nucleotides
Cell Cycle
100
What does DNA stand for?
What is deoxyribosnucleic acid
100
Where is DNA primarily found?
What is the nucleus
100
The base of adenine bonds to what?
What is thymine
100
Three subunit molecules in which a pentose sugar is bonded to a phosphate group and a nitrogen base
What is a nucleotide
100

The stage where DNA replication occurs

What is interphase

200
DNA's primary function.
What is to store and transfer genetic information
200
 Where is RNA found?

In the nucleus and cytoplasm

200
What kind of bonds hold together base pairs?
What are hydrogen bonds
200
Name all 3 units found in a nucleotide (In alphabetical order )
What is Base, Phosphate, Sugar.
200

The part of the cell cycle where cell division occurs

What is mitosis?

300
Primary function of RNA.
What is to synthesize proteins
300
2 types of RNA

What is tRNA and mRNA

300
What is the enzyme that unwinds the DNA double helix?
What is DNA helicase
300

the part of a nucleic acids that make the backbone of nucleic acids

What is the phosphate and sugar

300

The names of new cells after mitosis

What are daughter cells

400
One key difference between RNA and DNA
What is RNA is single stranded while DNA is double stranded, RNA is found in both nucleus and cytoplasm while DNA is only in nucleus, DNA contains deoxyribose while RNA contains ribose
400
The kind of interaction that holds the two strands of DNA together
What are hydrogen bonds
400

The enzyme responsible to linking together the nucleotides at the end of replication

What is ligase?

400
The pentose sugar found in RNA
What is ribose
400

the 4 stages of mitosis

What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase & cytokinesis

500
How many hydrogen bonds are found in this base sequence? 5' ACCGTACAG 3'
What is 23
500

The 2 scientists who used Rosalind Franklin's image to determine the structure of DNA

Who are Watson and Crick

500

What does it mean when it says DNA replication is a semi-conservative process

It means that each copy is made of 1 strand of the original DNA and the other is new DNA

500
Which direction is the nucleic acid sequence made?
What is 5' to 3'
500

Draw a model of all four stages of mitosis

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