The Instruction Manual
This molecule holds the "blueprints" or instructions for your whole body.
What is DNA?
In the DNA world, the letter A always pairs with this letter.
What is T?
DNA is shaped like a "twisted" version of this common climbing tool.
What is a ladder?
This is a section of DNA that codes for a protein.
What is a gene?
This is the most popular type of candy given on Valentine’s Day.
What is Chocolate?
These are the small pieces of DNA that decide things like your eye color.
What are genes?
The letter C always pairs with this letter.
What is G?
This is the fancy two-word name for the shape of DNA.
What is a double-helix?
In an animal cell, DNA stays protected inside this "brain" of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
This specific color of rose is the most popular flower gifted on Valentine’s Day.
What is Red?
These "B" words are the chemical letters (A, T, C, G) that make up the code.
What are Bases?
If one side of the DNA says A-C, the other side must say this.
What is T-G?
These are the "rungs" or steps of the DNA ladder.
What are the bases? (letters)
These are the X-shaped structures that DNA bundles into.
What are Chromosomes?
This company is famous for creating the very first heart-shaped box of chocolates.
What is Cadbury?
We call A and T "complementary" because they fit together like pieces of a _______.
What is puzzle?
TRUE OR FALSE:
Thymine is always paired with Cytosine.
What is false?
These molecules form the sides of the DNA ladder and are considered the "backbone" of DNA.
What are sugars and phosphates?
Every single cell in your body has the same DNA.
What is True?
This winged baby from Roman mythology carries a bow and arrow to make people fall in love.
Who is Cupid?
She was the first person to take an image of DNA using X-ray crystallography.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This "rule" states that the four bases of DNA always equal each other. The amount of Adenine always equals Thymine and the amount of Guanine always equals Cytosine.
What is Chargaff's Rule?
These two scientists were the first to figure out the physical shape of DNA as a double helix.
Who is James Watson and Francis Crick?
Before a cell divides, the DNA must do this so both new cells have instructions.
What is copy itself?
In the abbreviation "XOXO," what does the letter O stand for?
Who is a Hug?