🧬 DNA Detectives
The bond that joins complementary bases in DNA.
✅ Answer: What are hydrogen bonds?
I make up much of the ribosome itself.
✅ Answer: What is ribosomal RNA (rRNA)?
The sequence of three bases on tRNA that pairs with a codon.
✅ Answer: What is an anticodon?
The branch of medicine that studies inherited disorders and heredity.
✅ Answer: What is genetics?
DAILY DOUBLE
A tapeworm, a malaria parasite, and the common cold virus all rely on me for nutrients and a place to live and reproduce.
✅ Answer: What is a host?
I am identical in all your cells, yet I help make a nerve cell very different from a liver cell.
What is DNA?
I carry instructions from DNA to the ribosome.
✅ Answer: What is messenger RNA (mRNA)?
The process of making RNA from DNA.
✅ Answer: What is transcription?
To distinguish between two strains of the same bacterium, one would most directly compare this characteristic.
✅ Answer: What is the nucleotide sequence?
The type of pathogen responsible for tuberculosis.
✅ Answer: What is a bacterium?
A typo in me can sometimes lead to disease.
Answer: What is a mutation?
I am the organelle where proteins are assembled.
✅ Answer: What is the ribosome?
The process of making protein from RNA.
✅ Answer: What is translation?
A patient has symptoms before antibodies are detectable. Detecting this would provide earlier evidence of infection.
✅ What is the pathogen's nucleic acid/DNA/RNA
The pathogen responsible for COVID-19.
✅ Answer: What is SARS-CoV-2?
If DNA were a library, I would be a single book containing instructions for one product.
Answer: What is a gene?
I am the basic unit from which proteins are built.
✅ Answer: What is an amino acid?
The sequence DNA → RNA → Protein is known as this principle.
✅ Answer: What is the central dogma?
A blood sample contains only minute quantities of viral genetic material. Before detailed analysis can be performed, one would ideally need to do THIS to make many more copies of the target.
✅ Answer: What is amplification (PCR)?
The virus responsible for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
✅ Answer: What is HIV?
The sugar found in DNA.
✅ Answer: What is deoxyribose?
I deliver amino acids during protein synthesis.
✅ Answer: What is transfer RNA (tRNA)?
The three-letter sequence on mRNA that codes for an amino acid.
✅ Answer: What is a codon?
To distinguish one SARS-CoV-2 variant from another, scientists must determine the exact order of these chemical building blocks.
✅ Answer: What are nucleotides?
Daily Double
This nitrogenous base is present in RNA but absent in DNA.
✅ Answer: What is uracil?