DNA Structure
This nitrogenous base ALWAYS pairs with Cytosine.
What is Guanine?
This is where DNA replication takes place.
This is the role of mRNA.
What is to carry a message to the ribosomes from the DNA?
This is the full name for GMO.
What is Genetically Modified Organism?
This scientist used x-rays to figure out how DNA is put together.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This is the enzyme that breaks apart the DNA strands.
What is DNA helicase?
This is the number of nitrogenous bases found in a codon.
What is 3?
This is the term for organisms that contain genes from other organisms.
What is Transgenic?
These are the building blocks of DNA.
What are nucleotides?
This enzyme helps bond the new nucleotides to the old nucleotides on the original strands.
What is DNA polymerase?
This is the process of copying the sequence of one strand of DNA (template strand) into mRNA.
What is Transcription?
This was the multi-national project that was created to identify all of the genes present in the chromosomes of human beings.
What is the Human Genome Project?
These two substances make up the sides of the DNA molecule
What is phosphate and sugar?
This is when two strands of the parental DNA separate and each act as a template or model for a new complementary strand.
What is the semiconservative model of replication?
This is the process of decoding mRNA into a protein.
What is Translation?
This is a process that separates DNA in order for it to be evaluated.
What is Gel Electrophoresis?
These are the types of bonds that hold DNA strands together.
What are hydrogen bonds?
This is the name of the strand that contains the Okazaki fragments on the newly replicated DNA.
What is the LAGGING strand?
This is the type of RNA that makes up the ribosome.
What is rRNA?
This is a technique utilized by scientists to make many copies of small segments of DNA
What is Polymerase Chain Reaction?