DNA Replcation
Protein Synthesis
The Cell Cycle
Genetics
Random Facts
100
The direction of the flow of genetic information is from DNA to RNA to polypeptide.
What is the central dogma?
100
Transcription and translation
What are the two processes of protein synthesis?
100
DNA replication occurs.
What is synthesis?
100
We resemble our parents because of this.
What is heredity?
100
Kim's hometown.
What is Weston?
200
DNA gyrase (topoisomerase)
What is the enzyme that unwinds the DNA coil?
200
Introns are removed so that exons remain next to each other.
What is splicing?
200
The phase in which the cell is fully divided.
What is cytokinesis?
200
Insertion, deletion, substitution.
What are the 3 causes of point mutations?
200
The sport other than soccer that Amanda participates in.
What is sailing?
300
DNA Polymerase
What is the enzyme involved in DNA replication that is unidirectional?
300
A promoter
What is the specific sequence where RNA polymerase binds to and signals for transcription to begin?
300
A self-regulating mechanism the cell uses to make sure all steps have been met and nothing is out of whack.
What is a genetic checkpoint?
300
The reason there are an infinite number of traits for a given character.
What is continuous variation?
300
Kim's favorite lunch at Dana Hall.
What are chicken nuggets?
400
Okazaki Fragments
What are the short, discrete stretches produced in DNA synthesis on the lagging strand?
400
Each codon represents this.
What is an amino acid?
400
quiescent/senescent
What is the state during the G0 phase?
400
Draw a dihybrid cross (Punnett square) where one parent is homozygous dominant for both trait A and trait B, and the other parent is heterozygous for both trait A and trait B.
Draw a dihybrid cross (Punnett square) where one parent is homozygous dominant for both trait A and trait B, and the other parent is heterozygous for both trait A and trait B.
400
Fordham Prep and Fordham University.
What is the high school and college that Jim attended?
500
a biological process in which RNA molecules inhibit gene expression
What is an RNAi?
500
The cycle that involves injection of viral DNA into the bacterium, replication of viral DNA, integration of prophage into bacterial chromosome, transition back to the lytic cycle.
What is the lysogenic cycle?
500
Cell cycle phase transition where Cyclin D plus cdk4 are necessary.
What is S to G2
500
This word is what geneticists use for genes interacting in complex ways.
What is epistasis?
500
The animal that almost bit off Amanda's finger
What is a donkey?
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