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components which form the backbone of DNA
What is sugar and phosphate?
DNA stands for
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Is DNA positively or negatively charged?
Negatively charged
The smallest unit of life
Cell
structure composed of a nitrogen base, sugar and phosphate
What is a nucleotide?
Adenine pairs with _________.
Thymine
The complete set of genes in one organism is called
Genome
Bond that connects amino acids together
What is a peptide bond?
Cytosine
Pairs with Guanine
The woman who discovered the overall structure of DNA using x-ray crystallography
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Sequence of nucleotides that codes for a protein, resulting in a phenotype
Gene
Tiny structures that perform a function in a cell
Organelle
DNA provides the instructions to build ________, which are made up of amino acids.
Proteins
Branch of Biology that deals with heredity and variation of organisms.
Genetics
A three dimensional spiral (which is the shape of DNA)
helix
The flow of information from DNA to a protein is called
Central Dogma
A test where the results show the number and visual appearance of the chromosomes that were present in a cell
What is a karyotype?
The pyrimidine bases are
Thymine and Cytosine
The purine bases are
Adenine and Guanine
Amount of A = T and G = C is ____________ Rule
Chargaff's Rule
Tightly coiled DNA found in the nuclei of cells
Chromosome
Organelles that assist in the production of proteins
Ribosome