Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
MPD/Key Points
More Fun With DNA
100
During DNA replication, thymine always pairs with this.
What is adenine?
100
This nitrogen base is found in DNA, but not RNA.
What is thymine?
100
The disease in which cells grow and divide uncontrollably.
What is cancer?
100
Humans possess a DNA mutation allowing them to break this down and consume dairy products.
What is lactose?
100
The twisted ladder structure of DNA.
What is a double helix?
200
What guanine always pairs with.
What is cytosine?
200
This carries amino acids to the ribosome and adds them to the growing protein.
What is Transfer RNA?
200
A mass of abnormal cells.
What is a cancer tumor?
200
Where DNA replication takes place in the cell.
What is the nucleus?
200
The process in which an identical copy of a DNA strand is formed for a new cell.
What is DNA replication?
300
The four capital letters that represent the nitrogen bases in DNA.
What is A, T, G, and C?
300
What proteins are made of.
What are amino acids?
300
Scientist believe a mutation here causes cancer.
Where is DNA?
300
In 1951, this English Scientist discovered that DNA could exist in a dry form and a wet form.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
300
A section of a DNA molecule that contains the information to code for one specific protein.
What is a gene?
400
Blood samples are used in police investigation because DNA is found in these.
What are white blood cells?
400
The nitrogen base that is in RNA, but not in DNA.
What is uracil?
400
Mutations cannot be passed on to off spring if they occur here.
What are body cells?
400
This specifies what type of protein will be produced. Also the name of lesson 1....
What is the genetic code?
400
What SPF stands for.
What is sun protection factor?
500
These two published the structure of DNA in 1953.
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
500
Where the messenger RNA carries the coded message from DNA after it is copied.
Where is the cytoplasm?
500
The use of drugs to treat a disease.
What is chemotherapy?
500
The protein collagen was extracted from the soft tissue of this animal by Harvard scientists in 2007.
What is a Tyrannosaurus rex?
500
The three options for treating cancer.
What are surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy?
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