Twisted Terror
The place in the cell where DNA can be found
What is the nucleus?
A disease caused by a single mutation that results in red blood cells being misshapen, causing many symptoms, including painful blood clots
What is sickle cell disease?
What is the ribosome?
The friar whose experiments with pea plants provided valuable insight into patterns of inheritance
Who was Gregor Mendel?
The process in which cells with two sets of chromosomes divide into cells with one set of chromosomes
What is meiosis?
The X-shaped structures that DNA arranges itself in
What are chromosomes?
A treatment for certain diseases that uses RNA to edit genetic material, originally used by prokaryotes to attack viral DNA
What is CRISPR?
The process by which RNA is formed from DNA.
What is transcription?
An allele that overrides the instructions of another allele it is paired with
What is a dominant allele?
A type of cell with only one set of chromosomes
What is a haploid cell?
The process in which two strands of DNA are formed from one strand so that the cell can divide
What is replication?
A type of mutation in which one base pair is replaced with another
What is substitution?
The type of RNA that corresponds to specific strands of DNA.
What is messenger RNA?
A scenario where the effects of two heterozygous alleles can both be seen in the phenotype
What is codominance?
Rings of genetic material that prokaryotes can "fling" at each other
What are plasmids?
The subunits that make up DNA and RNA, containing deoxyribose sugar, a phosphate group, and a base.
What are nucleotides?
A type of mutation in which one extra base pair is added
What is insertion?
A section of RNA that is three bases long and contains instructions to add one specific amino acid to the protein chain.
What is a codon?
A scenario when two heterozygous alleles are both expressed in the phenotype but reduce each other's effects
What is incomplete dominance?
A type of viral infection in which the virus inserts its genetic material into the host's
What is a lysogenic infection?
The first letter of the base that cytosine pairs with in DNA.
What is G?
When mutations are present in some cells of a multicellular organism but not others
What is mosaicism?
The organelle that newly formed chains of amino acids head to in order to get processed
What is the Golgi apparatus?
Diseases that are based on mutations on specific chromosomes, are more common in men than woman, and include red-green color blindness and hemophilia.
What are X-linked disorders?
A gene in cats that causes their entire coat to become white, irregardless of any other color-determining alleles they might have inherited, but does not cause albinism
What is the dominant white epistatic gene?