Vocab
What is DNA?
What Does DNA Look Like?
How Are Copies of DNA Made?
What Are Mutations?
100
Contains the genetic material in cells.
What is a DNA?
100
Needed for cell's growth and determines the inherited characteristics of an organism.
What is genetic material?
100
The shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
100
This happens during replication.
What is two strands of DNA separate.
100
Can damage DNA.
What are mutagens?
200
A set of rules and symbols used to carry out information.
What is a code?
200
You could compare DNA to this.
What is a library?
200
DNA is made of this.
What are nucleotides?
200
Each new DNA molecule is made of this.
What is one strand of old DNA and one strand of new DNA?
200
Causes mutations.
What are random errors and mutagens?
300
Building block of DNA.
What is a nucleotide?
300
DNA carries this.
What is the information that a cell needs to function, grow, and divide?
300
Segments of DNA that relate to a certain trait.
What are genes?
300
Used for the pattern on a new strand of DNA.
What are bases?
300
Mutations that harm the normal function of a cell.
What is a genetic disorder?
400
Process of copying DNA molecules.
What is replication?
400
Make up the structure of a cell and do most of the work of a cell.
What is a protein?
400
The four bases of nucleotides.
What are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine?
400
Added when bases on the original molecule are exposed.
What are complementary nucleotides.
400
Examples of inherited disorders.
What are Tay-Sachs disease and sickle cell anemia?
500
Changes in the number, type, or order of bases on a piece of DNA.
What is a mutation?
500
DNA stands for this.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
500
Stored in the code of DNA.
What is information about which proteins the body should build.
500
Created when replication is complete.
What is two identical DNA molecules?
500
Genetic disorders that result from mutations that occur during someone's lifetime.
What are most cancers?
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