DNA Structure
What is the structure of a DNA molecule?
What information does DNA store?
Deoxyribose
What is the acid type of DNA?
What is the purpose of DNA?
What are Chromosomes?
Very long structures consisting of two DNA polymers
What are examples of traits determined by DNA?
how it eats, how it looks like, how it moves, etc.
Deoxyribonucleic acid.
sugar, phosphate, nitrogen base
What is the 3' carbon?
OH
Each gene is further divided into how many nucleotide subsegments?
"DNA is an instruction manual for...?"
segments of double stranded DNA
What is the 5' carbon?
Phosphate
DNA folds itself into paired packages called...
Adenine
Thymine
Guanine
Cytosine
What is the purpose of a DNA polymer?
To direct the production of other polymers called proteins
What is a telomere?
DNA at the end of linear chromosomes
Are DNA molecules monomers or polymers?
carbon 5' and carbon 3'
A-T
C-G
What do proteins formed by codons fully determine?
What is electrophoresis?
A technique used to separate DNA fragments according to size
What is the name of the linkage or bond that links together DNA's nucleotides?
What is the role of ribosomes?
It puts the amino acids referred to by each codon in a gene together