Cancer
DNA
Cell Cycle
RNA
Misc.
100
_____ results when cells divide uncontrollably.
What is cancer?
100
DNA is shaped in a ______.
What is double helix structure?
100
The stage in which the cell increases in size by 20%.
What is the G1 phase?
100
The enzyme that transcribes RNA.
What is the RNA polymerase?
100
DOUBLE POINTS Replicate the following DNA strand: ACGTCA
What is TGCAGT?
200
Cancer can cause you to get one of these. HINT: These can be benign or malignant.
What is a tumor?
200
The process when DNA is copied.
What is replication?
200
A cell that is starting anaphase has just completed this stage of mitosis.
What is metaphase?
200
Transcribe the following RNA: AACGCA
What is UUGCGU?
200
The way the DNA polymerase reads DNA.
What is 3' to 5'?
300
The three main treatments for cancer.
What are chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery?
300
These nitrogenous bases are special types called purines.
What are guanine and adenine?
300
The two enzymes that regulate the cell cycle.
What are cyclin and CDK?
300
Proteins are made up of ______.
What are amino acids?
300
Programmed cell death.
What is apoptosis?
400
If these enzymes do not function properly in the cell cycle, it can lead to an abnormal cell which can cause cancer.
What are CDK and cyclin?
400
The nitrogenous bases.
What are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine?
400
The part of the chromosome where the spindle fibers attach.
What are centromeres?
400
Uracil replaces thymine in this process.
What is transcription?
400
The stage where the spindle fibers disappear.
What is telophase?
500
The main cause of lung cancer.
What is smoking?
500
DOUBLE POINTS An enzyme splits open the DNA.
What is the helicase?
500
Everything that happens before mitosis.
What is interphase?
500
The RNA is divided into chains of three amino acids which are a code for proteins.
What is translation?
500
The three different parts that make up DNA.
What are phosphate, deoxyribose, and nitrogenous bases?
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