DNA
RNA
Mendelian Genetics
Vocabulary
Evolution
100
Sugar and Phosphate
What makes up the backbone of DNA
100
uracil
What is the base in RNA instead of Thymine?
100
Pea Plants
What organism did mendel work out his laws of inheritance on?
100
Phenotype
What is expressed outwardly?
100
Charles Darwin
Who is the father of Evolutionary theory?
200
Adenine Guanine Thymine and Cytosine
What are the nitrogenous bases of DNA
200
mRNA
What kind of RNA takes the DNA code from the nucleus to the cytoplasm?
200
Homozygous
What is carrying 2 of the same alleles?
200
Genotype
What alleles are present?
200
The organisms best suited to the environment survive to reproduce
What is natural selection?
300
Replication
What is the copying of DNA called
300
tRNA
What carries an amino acid for protein synthesis?
300
Heterozygous
What is carrying 2 different alleles?
300
Transcription
What is the process of copying DNA code by mRNA?
300
Genes travel between populations due to migration
What is gene flow?
400
Hydrogen Bonds
What kind of bonds bind DNA nucleotides in the double helix?
400
rRNA
What builds ribosomes?
400
Dominant
What is a trait that is always expressed if it is present?
400
Translation
What is the building of protein/protein synthesis?
400
A random change in DNA
What is a mutation?
500
DNA Polymerase
What adds nucleotides during replication?
500
Peptide Bond
What kind of bond holds together amino acids in a protein?
500
1:2:1
What is the genotypic ratio of offspring of 2 heterozygous parents?
500
Helicase
What enzyme opens up the DNA double helix to allow replication?
500
An event or circumstance that causes a change in the genetic makeup of a population
What is genetic drift?
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