Vocabulary
The organelle where transcription takes place
What is the nucleus?
What is a gene?
These are the 4 bases used in DNA replication
What are A, G, C, and T?
The number and types of cells that are the result of one cell undergoing mitosis
What is 2 identical daughter cells
Term for the pair of chromosomes that look alike and carry the same sequences of genes for the same traits
What is homologous?
All of a cell's genetic material
What is genome?
Term for the three bases that code for an amino acid
What is codon?
This bonds to cytosine
What is guanine
The number of chromosomes in a somatic cell
What is 46 or 23 pairs
Of Meiosis I or Meiosis II, this one looks the same as mitosis
What is Meiosis II?
The organelle where translation takes place
What is the ribosome?
These are the 4 nucleotide bases used when transcribing DNA to mRNA
What are A, C, G, U?
Name the DNA 2 pyrimidines
What are cytosine and thymine
This is the phase of mitosis where chromosomes line up in the middle (or meet in the middle) of the cell
What is metaphase?
Cells with one set of chromosomes, such as an egg or a sperm cell, are called this
The organelle where proteins are packaged and shipped in and outside of the cell
What is the Golgi body
This type of RNA brings amino acids to build a protein
What is tRNA?
The cell cycle phase when DNA is replicated
What is the S or synthesis phase
The most radioresistant time in a cell cycle
What is the S phase
Term for when nonsister chromatids exchange DNA fragments
What is crossing over?
The cylindrical organelles that organize the spindle fibers during mitosis
What are centrioles
This is the structure where protein synthesis takes place in a cell
What is a ribosome
The rails of a DNA molecule are made of these
What is a 5 carbon sugar and a phosphate
The phase when the nuclear membrane reforms during a cell cycle
What is telophase
The number and type of cells you end up with at the end of meiosis
What is 4 haploid cells that are unique