DNA Structure
Strawberry Lab
Genes and Proteins
Vocabulary
Everything Else
100
1) These are the three basic parts of DNA.
What is sugar, phosphate and nitrogen bases?
100
6) Give two reasons we smashed up the strawberry.
What is 1) to give us more cells to work with and 2) break the cell apart.
100
11) Genes are found on this.
What are chromosomes.
100
16) A codon has this many bases.
What is three.
100
21) Adenine pairs with this in RNA.
What is Uracil
200
2) These two materials make up the sides of the DNA ladder.
What are sugar and phosphate.
200
7) Mixing the strawberry mash with soapy/salty solution did this.
What is break up the parts of the cell and dissolve the cell membranes.
200
12) This is what transfer RNA does during protein synthesis.
What is carry amino acids and attach them to the protein.
200
17) A group of three bases can code for one of these.
What is an amino acid.
200
22) In DNA adenine will only pair with this.
What is Thymine.
300
3) These are the nitrogen base pairs found in DNA.
What are Adenine to Thymine and Cytosine to Guanine.
300
8) This is why we filtered the strawberry mush.
What is to separate the different parts of the cell. We only wanted the little parts.
300
13) This is where protein synthesis takes place.
What are the ribosomes.
300
18) The order of nitrogen bases determines an organisms... two words... second word code.
What is genetic code.
300
23) Genes give directions for these.
What are specific traits or characteristics.
400
4) This is three ways the shape of DNA can be described as.
What is a twisted ladder, spiral staircase and a spring.
400
9) Dropping the strawberry liquid through the ethanol did this.
What is separate out the DNA from the solution.
400
14) Messenger RNA performs this function in protein synthesis.
What is copies the directions from the DNA and carries it into the cytoplasm.
400
19) This is a one syllable word for synthesis.
What is MAKE!
400
24) The order of bases in mRNA determines this.
What are the types of amino acids, and eventually the type of protein.
500
5) This nitrogen base is only found in RNA.
What is Uracil.
500
10) This what DNA folds into to fit into the nucleus.
What is DNA twists and spirals to make chromosomes.
500
15) Two types of RNA include...
What are mRNA and tRNA
500
20) This DNA structure can be defined as the rungs, or steps of DNA's twisted ladder.
What are nitrogen bases.
500
25) Our genetic code is located here.
What is in our DNA, in the nuclei of our cells.
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