Helps determine if a trait is dominant or recessive, and helps predict what might happen in the next generation.
Pedigrees or Family Trees
100
This enzyme splits the DNA double helix down the middle.
What is Helicase
100
Truth: clones come out the same age and with the same personalities as their 'originals'
What is a common misconception about cloning (just plain wrong!)
100
what DNA stands for
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid
100
This is why DNA moves towards the positive pole during Electrophoresis (and not the other way!)
What is DNA's negative charge?
200
Variations of a gene like color of eyes or color of hair
What is an allele?
200
this enzyme catches, matches and patches nucleotides together
What is DNA Polymerase
200
this type of cloning creates stem cells for use in research and medecine
What is Therapeutic Cloning
200
the building block of DNA
What is a Nucleotide
200
The reason why smaller fragments of DNA move farther during AGE
What happens because of the small pores/tight matrix of the Agarose gel
300
This is not a genetic disorder, but involves a child receiving abnormal genetic information from a parent
What is a chromosomal abnormality, like a trisomy, (Down Syndrome, Edwards or Klinefelter)
300
The type of macromolecule that an enzyme is.
What is Protien
300
The cloning type that only has a 10% success rate making new animals.
What is reproductive cloning?
300
DNA that is coiled together into neat packages before a cell divides
What are chromosomes
300
The reason why you always have a lane of DNA just by itself
What is a control or "how do you tell if your enzymes work at all"
400
The offspring of these two parental genotypes will always look recessive
What is "both are homozygous recessive"
400
How Helicase cuts DNA and how Restriction Enzymes cut DNA
What is Helicase unzips DNA lengthwise and RE's cut the DNA into shorter fragments. (or RE's 'read' the DNA)
400
This cell is made by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
What is a Stem Cell
400
This part of DNA shows how the two sides of the Double Helix run in opposite directions.
What is the 5' and 3' ends or why does DNA have an extra phosphate on opposite sides.
400
The reason why Restriction Enzymes will cut the same person's DNA in the same number of fragments every time.
What is the 'restriction site' or specific sequence the RE looks for?
500
These kinds of traits create diversity in our society
What are "recessive traits"
500
The two enzymes used to make Recombinant DNA
What are Restriction Enzymes and Ligase
500
These types of cloning are used to make bunnies, pigs, monkeys and mice glow green under fluorescent light.
What is Reproductive and Recombinant DNA cloning
500
These are three ways DNA structure supports its function.
What are:
Nitrogenous bases- make variation for the code
Sugar Phosphate backbone- gives strength
Double Helix and Base Pairing Rules- allow for easy copying
500
This is why you often need to use a mixture of different enzymes for DNA Fingerprinting
What do you do to create the most complex banding patterns in DNA Fingerprinting, or How can you tell apart DNA from very closely related people?