DNA Vocabulary
What is the shape of DNA?
A Double Helix
What are the bases and their pairs?
Thymine (T) - Adenine (A)
Guanine (G) - Cytosine (C)
The macromolecule of DNA
Nucleic acid
Where is DNA found within the cell
Nucleus
A nitrogen base that pairs with only thymine
Adenine
What would the matching sequence be?
A T T G C A
T A A C G T
A Nitrogen base that only pairs with only adenine
Thymine
Proteins
A nitrogen base that pairs with only cytosine
Guanine
Which bases are single rings (Pyrimidines)?
What is Thymine and Cytosine
A nitrogen base that pairs with only guanine
Cytosine
Chromosome
What 2 things makes up the “backbone”?
Bonus point if you get the scientific name
Phosphate and Deoxyribose (sugar)
Which bases are double rings (Purines)?
What is adenine and guanine
The part of the DNA molecule located on the "inside" of the double helix
Nitrogen base
The loose, string-like, uncoiled DNA
Chromatin
Part of a DNA molecule consisting of 1 sugar, 1 phosphate and a nitrogen base
A nucleotide
What would the matching sequence be?
A G C T A T T C G T A G
T C G A T A A G C A T C
DNA being copied to make more DNA
Replication
What does DNA have the instructions to make?
Proteins