hereditary material that controls all of the cell's activities, contains information for making new cells, and provides instructions for making proteins.
What is Deoxribonucleic Acid?
100
Small organelles in the cell where proteins are made from amino acids.
What are ribosomes?
100
manipulation of genes that allows scientists to put genes from one organism into another organism.
What is genetic engineering?
100
an extra base is added to a strand of DNA
What is Insertion?
100
What is the matching set for the following DNA
AGA
What is TCT?
200
One of the four bases pairs that combine with sugar and phosphate to form a nucleotide subunit of DNA; pairs with Adenine.
What is Thymine?
200
A change in the order of a cell's DNA
What is a mutation?
200
the analysis of fragments of DNA as a form of identification.
What is DNA fingerprinting?
200
A base is removed from a strand of DNA
What is deletion?
200
Phosphate, Sugar and one of the four bases
What is a nucleotide?
300
One of the four bases pairs that combine with sugar and phosphate to form a nucleotide subunit of DNA; pairs with Cytosine.
What is Guanine?
300
Anything that can damage or cause changes to a cell's DNA
What is a mutagen?
300
a world wide scientific effort to discover the location of every gene and to create a "map" of the entire human genome.
What is the Human Genome Project?
300
A base pair is replaced by another base pair in a strand of DNA
What is substitution?
300
When one trait is not completely dominant over another and there is a "blending" of traits and each allele has its degree of influence.
What is Incomplete Dominance?
400
One of the four bases pairs that combine with sugar and phosphate to form a nucleotide subunit of DNA; pairs with Guanine.
What is Cytosine
400
A diagram of family history used for tracing traits through several generations.
What is a pedigree?
400
Allow scientists to change an organism's DNA to give an organism new characteristics.
What is genetic engineering?
400
What type of mutation causes Sickle Cell Anemia?
What is Substitution?
400
The shape that was suggested by Rosalind Franklin's X-ray images.
What is a coiled or spiral shape of DNA
500
One of the four bases pairs that combine with sugar and phosphate to form a nucleotide subunit of DNA; pairs with Thymine.
What is Adenine?
500
A set of instructions for assembling a protein
What is a gene?
500
The resulting DNA when one organism's DNA is placed into another organism using genetic engineering.
What is recombinant DNA?
500
What type of mutation causes Tay Sachs Disease?
What is substitution
500
The scientists that predicted what DNA looks like and how it would replicate.