The first person responsible for discovering the helical structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
What is a nucleotide?
In DNA, adenine pairs with thymine but in RNA, adenine pairs with _________.
What is uracil?
The structure found at the end of each chromosome to protect the DNA.
What is a telomere?
Who is Erwin Chargaff?
The type of bond between the phosphate backbone of DNA.
What is a phosphodiester bond?
One difference between DNA and RNA.
DNA double stranded, RNA single stranded
DNA contains thymine, RNA contains uracil
DNA composed of deoxyribose, RNA composed of ribose
Chromosomes from each parent that are similar in length, gene position, and centromere location.
What are homologous chromosomes?
The process of going from mRNA to amino acid.
What is translation?
An example of pyrimidines.
What is cytosine (C), uracil (U), and thymine (T)?
What is mRNA?
The number of homologous chromosomes in human cells.
What is 22?
The amino acid that starts protein synthesis during translation.
What is methionine (Met)?
The number and type of bonds between cytosine and guanine.
What are 3 hydrogen bonds?
The molecule that contains the anti-codon.
What is tRNA?
The number of histones that come together to make a nucleosome.
What is a 8?
The number of different codon sequences.
What is 64?
The type of base pairs made up of a double carbon ring.
What are purines?
The protein responsible for the synthesis of mRNA.
What is RNA polymerase?
The amount of genes in the human genome.
What is 20,000 to 25,000?