The Basics
Structure
Techniques
Hodge Podge
Vocabulary
100
The number different bases are associated with the makeup of DNA
What are 4?
100
Name the 3 part of a nucleotide
What are sugar group, phosphate group and nitrogen base?
100
This technique can produce many exact copies of segments of DNA
What is PCR?
100
This hereditary disease results in abnormal hemoglobin due to one different amino acid
What is sickle-cell anemia?
100
Polymers of amino acids
What are proteins?
200
The number of nitrogenous bases needed to code for a specific amino acid
What is 3?
200
Name the base not found in DNA
What is uracil?
200
The amelogenin gene is used to with STR kits in crime labs to determine a specific piece of information
What is gender?
200
This is used to cut DNA at specific sites
What are restriction enzymes?
200
Technique for separating molecules through their migration under the influence of electrical potential
What is electrophoresis?
300
The men that determined the structure of DNA
Who are Francis Crick and James Watson?
300
The molecular structure of DNA is made of this repeating unit
What is a nucleotide?
300
A body that has been left to decay for a long period of time, you may need to use this type of DNA for identification
What is mitochondrial DNA?
300
2 regions of mtDNA
What are HV1 and HV2?
300
The synthesis of new DNA from existing DNA
What is replication?
400
Name the correct base-pairing of nitrogenous bases in DNA
What is T-A and C-G?
400
These 2 groups repeat to make up the backbone of the DNA molecule
What are sugar and phosphate groups?
400
This laboratory procedure has made possible the development of bacteria that can synthesize insulin
What is gene splicing?
400
Cells from the mouth and inside of the cheek
What are buccal cells?
400
A threadlike structure in the cell nucleus composed of DNA
What is a chromosome?
500
Name the 4 nitrogen bases
What are adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine?
500
The enzymes that assemble a new strand in the proper base sequence determined by the original DNA strand
What are polymerases?
500
The transfer of DNA fragments onto a nylon membrane
What is Southern blotting?
500
What does RFLP stand for?
What is restriction fragment length polymorphisms?
500
Joining 2 complementary strands of DNA to form a double stranded helix
What is hybridization?
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