What are the only cells in your body that do not contain DNA?
What are red blood cells?
100
What are the three types of RNA?
What is mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA?
100
What is a mutation?
What is any change in the DNA of a gene or chromosome.
100
How many types of cancer are there?
What is over 100?
200
What are the rungs of a DNA ladder made of?
What are nitrogen bases?
200
What make up the sides of DNA?
What are alternating sugar (deoxyribose) and phosphate molecules?
200
Identify three differences in DNA and RNA?
What is 1) DNA has thymine, RNA has uracil. 2) DNA is made of 2 strands, RNA is made of 1 strand. 3) DNA has the sugar deoxyribose, RNA has the sugar ribose.
200
What are three types of mutations?
What are addition, deletion, and substitution?
200
What is a disease in which cells grown and divide uncontrollably, damaging the parts of the body around them?
What is cancer?
300
What does DNA stand for?
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
300
What is the process in which an identical copy of a DNA strand is formed for a new cell?
What is DNA replication?
300
What type of RNA copies the message from the DNA in the nucleus and carries the message to the ribosome in the cytoplasm?
What is mRNA?
300
Are most mutations harmful, helpful, or neither?
What is neither?
300
If cancer begins in my stomach and later spreads to my arm, what do I call the cancer that is now in my arm?
What is stomach cancer?
400
How could you describe the structure of DNA?
What is a twisted ladder, also known as a double helix?
400
What would be on the other strand of this half of DNA: CGTAATGCAT
What is GCATTACGTA?
400
What makes protein?
What are long chains of amino acids?
400
Describe a helpful mutation.
What is a mutation that will increase an organisms ability to survive and reproduce?
400
What are three ways to treat cancer?
What is surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy?
500
Who published the structure of DNA?
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
500
What always pairs with guanine? What always pairs with adenine?
What is cytosine? What is thymine?
500
What happens during protein synthesis?
What is the cell uses information from a gene on a chromosome to produce a specific protein?
500
Cancer begins in a person's stomach and later spreads to their liver. What is the name of the cancer found in their liver?
What is stomach cancer?
500
How does cancer spread?
What is when some cancerous cells break off from the tumor, they enter the bloodstream and move to other parts of the body?