DNA Structure
Inheritance
Mitosis & Meiosis
Mutations
Random
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The nitrogen base that pairs with Adenine, in DNA.
What is Thymine?
100
The name for an allele that is masked by another allele.
What is recessive?
100
The division of the nucleus.
What is mitosis?
100
The genetic disorder that results from having three copies of Chromosome 21.
What is Down Syndrome?
100
The name of Dorothy's dog in the Wizard of Oz.
Who is Toto?
200
The nitrogen base that pairs with cytosine, in DNA.
What is Guanine?
200
The physical characteristics of an organism.
What is the phenotype?
200
The phase in which the cell grows and replicates organelles.
What is Interphase?
200
The type of mutation where a base, or several bases, are missing from a DNA strand.
What is a deletion?
200
The number of fingers on each hand, assuming that the thumb doesn't count as a finger, neither does the pinky, and the pointer finger is forgotten for whatever reason.
What is two...?
300
The shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
300
The country where Gregor Mendel was born.
What is Austria?
300
The phase in which a cell is not actively dividing.
What is Interphase?
300
Mutations are thought to be the driving force of this natural process.
What is Evolution?
300
The brightest planet in our solar system.
What is Venus?
400
The scientist who took an X-Ray photograph of DNA's structure.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
400
Another name for true-breeding, when an organism has two of the same alleles for one trait.
What is homozygous?
400
The central region of a chromosome.
What is a centromere?
400
DAILY DOUBLE! In this town, albino squirrels are protected by law.
What is Olney, IL?
400
The spinning motion that an alligator makes after dragging its prey underwater, which it uses to drown its target.
What is a death roll?
500
The two molecules that make up the backbones of DNA.
What are sugars and phosphates?
500
The percentage chance of having a child with a homozygous recessive genotype offspring from two hybrid parents.
What is 25%?
500
The process in which two homologous chromosomes 'snap' together to form a tetrad.
What is synapsis?
500
The three base pair sequence that repeats over 40 times to cause Huntington's Disease.
What is CAG?
500
The item used as the core of Hermione Granger's wand.
What is a dragon heartstring?
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