RNA
Does RNA have a spiral?
No
What is an allele
A different version of a gene
What is a gene made up of?
DNA
what is nucleotides?
Molecule that has 3 basic parts.
What type of strand is RNA
Single strand
What is a genotype?
Description of allele pairs or genetic makeup
Genetics is the study of how genes ____ with one another
interact
what does the double helix look like?
a twisted ladder
RNA contains all the nitrogenous bases except _____
Thymine
What is a phenotype
How the genes are expressed in the body/ physical appearance
Genes come in pairs called what?
alleles
What is the backbone of the helix made out of?
Sugar and Phosphate
Most changes are not ___ and can be ___
harmful, repaired
A dominant allele is represented by a ____ letter and a recessive alleles is represented by a ____ letter
uppercase (stronger), lowercase(weaker)
What are some examples of traits you might get from your parents?
Hair color, eye color, height etc.
In the DNA double helix, which base does adenine (A) pair with?
Thymine (T)
what is deleterious mutation?
A permanent change that is harmful to the body.
what is the difference between heterozygous and homozygus?
Heterozygous means you've inherited different alleles of a gene from each of your parents and homozygous means you've inherited the same alleles from a gene from each parent.
If a person with a genotype of Bb has a child with a person who has a genotype bb, What is the probability the child will have blue eyes?
which 3 people helped the discovery of the structure of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin, James D. Watson and Francis Crick