The Genetic Code
The Genetic Code 2
The Genetic Code 3/How Cells Make Proteins
How Cells Make Proteins
Mutations
100
in 1951 this English scientist discovered that DNA could exist in a dry form and a wet form and took xray images if the wet form
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
100
the rungs of the DNA ladder are made of these
What are nitrogen bases?
100
the proccess in which an identical copy of a DNA strand is formed for a new cell
What is DNA replication?
100
only 20 of these exist to make thousands of different proteins
What are amino acids?
100
any change in the DNA of a gene or chromosome
What is a mutation?
200
they published about the structure of DNA in 1953
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
200
adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine
What are the four nitrogen bases?
200
adenine always pairs with
What is thymine?
200
protein synthesis takes place here
What is the cytoplasm?
200
mutations cause a cell to produce this incorrectly
What is a protein?
300
another name for the twisted ladder structure of DNA
What is "double helix"?
300
a section of DNA is made of this
What is a gene?
300
the abbreviation for ribonucleic acid
What is RNA?
300
deletion, addition and substitution
What are types of mutations?
400
the sides of the double helix are made of these ( you must say two things)
What are deoxyribose (sugar) and phosphate molecules?
400
long chains of amino acids
What are proteins?
400
this happens to the protein when the three-base code signals it to stop
What is the protein is released?
400
RNA contains uracil instead of this
What is thymine?
400
an organism's chances for survival are reduced is an example of this
What an effect of a mutation or a harmful mutation?
500
the full name of DNA (you must say it correctly)
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
500
DNA unzips
What is the first step in DNA Replication?
500
it carries amino acids to the ribosome and adds them to the growing protein
What is transfer RNA?
500
it carries the message from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome in the cytoplasm
What is messenger RNA?
500
a disease in which cells grow and divide uncontrollably, damaging parts of the body around them
What is cancer?
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