DNA Facts
Parts of DNA
DNA Replication
Why DNA?
DNA Vocabulary
100
True or false... despite years of research, the actual structure of the DNA molecule is still unknown.
What is False
100
What does DNA stand for? Deoxynucleic Aminos or Deoxyribonucleic Acid
What is Deocyribonucleic Acid
100
Where does DNA replication take place in humans?
What is Nucleus
100
Why is DNA important to all living things?
What is DNA is the blue print for life
100
What: Makes up chromosomes and controls the traits of living things?
What is DNA
200
True or False...The replication of a DNA molecule results in three copies of the same gene.
What is False
200
A ____________ bond holds the Deoxyribose sugars to the Phosphate groups and in terms of strength, it is considered to be STRONG.
What is a Phosphate Bond
200
During replication, the function of the enzyme of DNA polymerase is to.... send messages or bind nucleotides together
What is bind nucleotides together
200
List one thing that is the same about all living things on the planet:
What is DNA and it's code is all on the same side of the ladder and All have the same four bases
200
What causes changes in the DNA message and causes an error in base pairing?
What is mutation
300
The primary function of DNA is to...
What is Store and transmit genetic information
300
A nucleotide consists of: a sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogen-containing base or a sugar, a protein and adenine
What is a sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogen-containing base.
300
DNA replication results in two DNA molecules... each with new strands or each with one new strand and one original strand
What is each with one new strand and one original strand
300
What separates all living things on the planet?
What is the order of the bases
300
What has ribonucleic acid, carries DNA message from the nucleus to the ribosome and directs the forming of protein?
What is RNA
400
DNA is composed of long chains of nucleotides or amino acids?
What is Nucleotides
400
The base-pairing rules state that the following are base pairs in DNA: adenine-thymine and guanine-cytosine or adenine-guanine and thymine-cytosine
What is adenine-thymine and guanine-cytosine
400
DNA is copied during a process called...
What is replication
400
Why does a flower have DNA?
What is it is alive, all living things have DNA.
400
What puts the bases in DNA in order and copies traits?
What is genetic message
500
The scientists credited with establishing the structure of DNA are: Mendel and Griffith or Watson and Crick
Who are Watson and Crick
500
Fill in the missing bases to complete the system: A-T T-A G-C T- C-
What are T-A and C-G
500
DNA and RNA can both be found in the....
What is nucleus
500
What happens to the hydrogen bonds in DNA at the start of replication
What is they break apart
500
What can cause mutations, is a form of energy and is released by the sun?
What is radiation
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