Vocabulary
Protein Synthesis
DNA Replication
Mitosis
Meiosis
100

The organelle where transcription takes place

What is the nucleus?

100
This is the sequence of DNA that encodes a specific protein

What is a gene?

100

These are the 4 bases used in DNA replication

What are A, G, C, and T?

100
This causes cancer - it is a mass of cells that divides uncontrollably

What is a tumor?

100

Term for the pair of chromosomes that look alike and carry the same sequences of genes for the same traits

What is homologous?

200

All of a cell's genetic material

What is genome?

200

Term for the three bases that code for an amino acid

What is codon?

200

This enzyme adds nucleotides to the growing complementary strand during DNA replication.

What is DNA polymerase?

200

This type of reproduction results in an exact copy of the parent cells, with very little genetic variation

What is asexual reproduction?

200

Of Meiosis I or Meiosis II, this one looks the same as mitosis

What is Meiosis II?

300

The organelle where translation takes place

What is the ribosome?

300

These are the 4 nucleotide bases used when transcribing DNA to mRNA

What are A, C, G, U?

300

This enzyme helps unzip the DNA so it can be replicated

What is DNA helicase?
300

This is the phase of mitosis where chromosomes line up in the middle (or meet in the middle) of the cell

What is metaphase?

300

Cells with one set of chromosomes, such as an egg or a sperm cell, are called this

What is haploid?
400

One half of a duplicated chromosome - you can have sister and non-sister ones in mitosis and meiosis

What is chromatid?

400

This type of RNA brings amino acids to build a protein

What is tRNA?

400

Cells undergo this type of cell division after fertilization

What is mitosis?

400

The three parts of the cell cycle

What are interphase, cell division (or mitosis), and cytokinesis?

400

Term for when nonsister chromatids exchange DNA fragments

What is crossing over?

500

Cells with two sets of chromosomes are called this. A skin cell is an example of these cell types.

What is diploid?

500

This is the central dogma of molecular biology

What is DNA is transcribed into mRNA, which is translated into a protein? (DNA -> RNA -> protein)

500
This would be the complementary sequence to the following DNA strand: AGG TAC CAT TTA

What is TCC ATG GTA AAT?

500

The number of cells you end up with at the end of mitosis

What is 2 identical cells?
500

The number of cells you end up with at the end of meiosis

What is 4 haploid cells that are genetically different

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