All About Cells
The jelly-like substance inside of the cell membrane.
What is cytoplasm?
A protein.
What is a chain of amino acids that executes most functions in a cell?
Dominant alleles are usually _____ letters, while recessive alleles are represented by _____ letters.
What are uppercase and lowercase letters?
In this, squares are males and circles are females.
What is a pedigree?
The most common amino acids on a codon chart, serine, leucine, and arginine, are each coded for by this many codons.
What is 6?
This cell reproduction type produces identical cells.
What is mitosis?
A ligand.
What is a crucial molecule in cell communication molecule?
A physical description of a trait.
What is a phenotype?
The four bases of DNA.
What are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine?
These codons code for stopping the protein building.
What are UAA, UAG, and UGA?
The LAST phase in mitosis, meiosis I, and meiosis II.
What is telophase?
Chromatin.
What is the material that makes up the chromosomes?
The genetic makeup of a trait.
What is a genotype?
This base replaces thymine on RNA.
What is uracil?
This is the first step of protein synthesis, and is followed by this other stage.
What is transcription, followed by translation?
This type of cell reproduction does mitosis twice and and produces gametes.
What is meiosis?
Ion channel.
What is a protein in the cell membrane that allows ions to pass through?
This is a three-trait cross.
What is a trihybrid cross?
This person is the so-called "father of genetics".
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Isoleucine appears this many times on a codon chart.
What is three?
Lysosomes act like this.
What is a garbage dump for a cell?
Okazaki Fragment.
What is a short sequence of pre-synthesized DNA on the lagging strand?
Polydactyly is this type of trait.
What is an autosomal dominant trait?
DNA -> RNA -> Protein is called this.
What is the central dogma of molecular genetics/biology?
The sole codon for tryptophan is this.
What is UGG?