DNA Structure
The shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
This is what results from copying one molecule of DNA
What are two molecules of DNA?
DNA can be isolated from any cell except these
What are red blood cells?
Memory for just a few minutes
What is short term memory?
What is a race?
The sugars and the phosphates.
What is the "backbone of a DNA molecule"?
the location of DNA in the cell
What is the nucleus?
Used to cut the DNA
What are restriction enzymes?
the average number of units that can be stored in short term memory
what is 7?
Organization that has helped free many people who have been falsely convicted
What is the innocence project?
Bonds with T
What is A?
Method of DNA typing that uses repeating DNA sections
What is STR?
The I in the mnemonic CRIME?
What is Imagery?
This procedure can make people more likely to misidentify people?
What is a lineup?
A (nitrogenous) base, a sugar, and a phosphate.
What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide?
The process of copying a DNA molecule
What is DNA polymerase?
Used to amplify DNA
What is PCR?
When you believe you remember something that wasn't there
What is a memory illusion?
Not like a tape recorder
What is memory?
The type of bond that holds together the DNA backbone
What is a covalent bond?
has two rings
What is a purine?
Used to seperate DNA by size
What is gel electropheresis?
Breaking a sequence into units to help remember
e.g SAT/FBI/CIA
What is chunking?
What P.O.R. N stands for
What is Proactive: old interferes with new
Retroactive: New Interferes with old