Cell Cycle
The combination of tightly coiled DNA + Histones
What are chromosomes?
The macromolecule that DNA is.
What are nucleic acids?
The number of strands in RNA.
What is single stranded?
The scientist who discovered the rules of inheritance.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
The change in a population's allele frequency over time.
What is evolution?
The division of the nucleus.
What is mitosis?
The sugar in DNA.
What is deoxyribose?
The type of RNA that is the complementary copy of DNA.
What is mRNA?
The different forms of a single gene.
What are alleles?
The mechanism for evolution and depends on an organism's fitness.
What is natural selection?
The division of the cytoplasm
What is cytokinesis?
The strand direction in DNA.
What is antiparallel?
The step in protein synthesis that occurs in the nucleus.
Organisms with two different alleles for the same gene.
What is heterozygous?
The variations that are inherited and increase an organism's ability to survive and reproduce.
What are adaptations?
The result of mitosis.
What are two genetically identical daughter cells?
The phase of the cell cycle that DNA replication occurs.
What is the S phase.
The three base sequences on mRNA that codes for a single amino acid.
What is a codon?
The inheritance mode where one allele is not completely dominant over the other.
What is incomplete dominance?
The structures that are similar in structure, but have a different function.
What are homologous structures?
The phase where chromosomes are pulled apart at the centromere.
What is anaphase?
The end result of DNA replication.
What is having two identical DNA molecules, each having one original and one new strand of DNA?
The heritable changes in genetic information.
What are mutations?
The inheritance mode where genes are carried on the X chromosome.
What is X-linked inheritance?
The occurrence when reproduction of offspring is prevented.
What is reproductive isolation?