DNA Structure
This molecule carries the genetic instructions for life.
What is DNA
This enzyme unzips the DNA double helix by breaking hydrogen bonds between the bases.
What is helicase?
The cell cycle allows a cell to grow, duplicate its DNA, and do this.
Divide
DNA is made up of three main parts: a phosphate group, a sugar, and this nitrogenous base.
What is a nucleotide?
This enzyme adds new DNA nucleotides to the growing strand during replication.
DNA polymerase
This is the phase of the cell cycle where the cell spends most of its life growing and carrying out normal functions.
What is interphase?
In DNA, adenine always pairs with this base.
Thymine
How many steps are in DNA replication
3
During this specific phase of interphase, the cell replicates its DNA.
What is S phase
DNA’s shape is described as this, which looks like a twisted ladder.
What is a Double Helix?
What is the name of the shape that is formed when helicase unzips DNA
Replication fork
What happens in G1 phas
Prepares for DNA replication
What is the full name for DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid
What is the last step of DNA replication and the enzyme used?
Joining, ligase
Prepares for cell division