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100
the structure of DNA which is like a twisted ladder.
What is a double helix?
100
The process that forms RNA from a strand of DNA.
What is transcription?
100
The process of forming a protein from a RNA strand.
What is translation?
100
A mistake or change in genetic material.
What is a mutation?
100
How DNA makes more of itself.
What is replication?
200

They make up the "rungs" of the twisted DNA ladder.

What are the bases Adenine, Thymine , Cytosine, and Guanine?

200

The base that is not found in DNA.

What is Uracil?

200
The set of 3 bases that code for an amino acid.
What is a codon?
200

Scientists use biological and chemical methods to change the arrangement of DNA that makes a gene.

What is Genetic Engineering?

200
DNA replication takes place before this cell process.
What is cell division.
300

The rule for how nitrogen bases match up in DNA.

What is A with T and C with G?
300
This molecule is composed of a single strand of bases.
What is RNA?
300
The small units that make up a protein.
What is an amino acid?
300

DNA from one organism is placed into another species. (Ex: Insulin gene inserted into the DNA of bacteria.)

What is Recombinant DNA technology?

300
The number of DNA copies made during replication.
What is 2?
400

The "X" shaped structure that is composed of tightly wound DNA.

What is a chromosome?

400
The molecule that has all the information for making and maintaining a living organism.
What is DNA?
400
This molecule is used for growth and repair of living organisms.
What is a protein?
400

The old process used to improve crop plants and domestic animals, by breeding organisms with the desired traits.

What is a selective breeding?

400
The process where DNA separates, or what you do with your coat when you come indoors.
What is unzipping?
500

The number of chromosomes humans have.

What is 46?

500
The RNA sequence that is formed from the following DNA C C G T T A
What is G G C A A U?
500
Eukaryotic cells contain DNA in this organelle.
What is a nucleus?
500
A cookbook is to DNA, what a recipe card is to _________.
What is RNA?
500
A piece of DNA that codes for a trait.
What is a gene?
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