DNA vs RNA
DNA is a "double" ladder, but RNA usually only has this many sides.
What is one?
This type of cell division is for skin and the rest of your body cells when you grow.
What is mitosis?
If a DNA strand has the letter A, its matching DNA partner is always this letter.
What is T (thymine)?
These are the tiny "factories" in the cell where proteins are actually built.
What are ribosome?
This is the name for the first step where DNA is "copied" into an mRNA message.
What is transcription?
In DNA, Adenine pairs with Thymine, but in RNA, it pairs with this base.
What is Uracil?
This process makes 4 "daughter cells" for making babies (sperm or egg).
What is meiosis?
On any strand, the letter G always pairs with this partner
What is cytosine?
These are the "building blocks" (the individual beads) that make up a protein chain.
What are amino acids?
This is the name for the second step where the mRNA is "read" to build the protein.
What is translation?
If you’re building RNA, you have to swap out Thymine for another base.
What is Uracil?
Mitosis makes 2 perfect clones, but Meiosis makes cells that are all this.
What Is differen?
If a DNA sequence is T-T-A, the matching DNA strand would be this.
What is A-T-T?
This is the 3-letter "word" on mRNA that codes for one amino acid.
What are codons?
This is the organelle where transcription happens.
What is the nucleus?
DNA and RNA are both "Nucleic Acids,". This is the name for the protein-building instructions they carry.
What are genes?
This is the name for when chromosomes "hug" and swap DNA pieces during Meiosis.
What is “crossing over”?
To make an RNA copy of the DNA code A-C-G, you would write this.
What is U-G-C?
This RNA molecule acts like a taxi, bringing amino acids to the factory.
What is tRNA?
This is the liquid "jelly" in the cell where the ribosomes hang out.
What is the cytoplasm?
DNA is the permanent "Master Blueprint," but this type of RNA is the "Working Copy" that gets used and then recycled.
What is mRNA?
In Mitosis, cells keep all their chromosomes, but in Meiosis, they have this much of the original DNA.
What is half?
To make an RNA copy of the DNA code T-G-C, you would write this.
What is A-C-G?
When the factory reaches one of these special codons, the protein is finished.
What is the stop codon?
After the ribosome builds the protein chain, it often goes to this organelle of the cell to be folded and shipped out.
What is the golgi body?