DNA (1)
DNA (2)
Misc.
Vocabulary
100
The three types of DNA mutations.
What is insertion, substitution, and deletion.
100
The four nucleotide bases.
What is adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine?
100
A DNA molecule has what kind a structure?
What is a double helix or twisted ladder?
100
A tool for tracing a trait through generations of a family.
What is a pedigree?
200
What materials make up each nucleotide in a DNA molecule?
What is sugar, phosphate, nucleotide base?
200
If there is 20% Adenine, there is ______% of cytosine.
What is 30%?
200
A disorder, such as cystic fibrosis, is a result of a parent having what kind of gene?
What is recessive?
200
Molecule that carries our hereditary information.
What is DNA?
300
The code for amino acids consists of how many bases?
What is 3?
300
Describe how a DNA molecule makes a copy of itself.
What is splits down the middle, the correct bases find their match.
300
Name one of the four exceptions to Mendel's principles.
What is Incomplete Dominance, 1 gene can influence many traits, many genes can influence a single trait, environment.
300
Manipulation of genes that allows scientists to put genes from one organism into another organism.
What is genetic engineering?
400
What are the four nucleotide bases and what are their pairs?
What is A=T. C=G.
400
Anything that can cause damage to DNA is a...
What is a mutagen?
400
Name one of the four exceptions to Mendel's principles.
What is What is Incomplete Dominance, 1 gene can influence many traits, many genes can influence a single trait, environment.
400
Analysis of fragments of DNA as a form of identification.
What is DNA fingerprinting?
500
Are all mutations harmful? Explain your answer.
What is No. Genetic mutations may help, harm, or cause no change at all.
500
A change in the order of the bases of an organism's DNA.
What is a mutation?
500
What did Watson and Crick do?
What is made a model of DNA. Studied DNA. Answers will vary.
500
This occurs when different traits are equally dominant and each allele has its own degree of influence.
What is incomplete dominance?
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