Melanin
DNA
Mutation
Evolution
Genetics
100
What is melanin?
What is a dark brown to black pigment occurring in the hair, skin, and iris of the eye in people and animals.
100
What is "transcription" of DNA?
What is the process by which a cell makes an RNA copy of a piece of DNA
100
Are mutations are random?
What is yes, mutationsare random?
100
What is evolution?
What is the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
100
Where do your traits come from?
What is from your mother and your father
200
What causes melania?
What is race and amount of sunlight exposure.
200
What is a codon?
What is a sequence of three nucleotides which together form a unit of genetic code in a DNA or RNA molecule
200
Are mutations always harmful?
What is no, mutations can either be beneficial, harmful, or neutral
200
Is evolution a random process?
What is no
200
What is the probablity that the offspring gets the dominate trait?
What is 100% chance that the offspring gets the dominate trait
300
Why do people that live near the equator normally have darker skin?
What is there is more exposure the the sun which increses your melin which cuase darker skin
300
What is a "strand" of DNA?
What is two long polynucleotide chains composed of four types of nucleotide subunits
300
What are the 4 main types of mutations?
What is substitution, deletion, insertion, and translocation.
300
Are all species related?
What is yes, all species are related
300
What are the 3 types of genotypes
What is homozygous dominant, homozygous recessive, and hetrozygous.
400
What is the name of the skin cell that produces melanin?
What is melanocytes
400
What information is coded into DNA?
What is the instructions for all the proteins the organism will ever synthesize
400
What cuases mutations?
What is errors in DNA replication or from the damaging effects of mutagens, such as chemicals and radiation
400
WHat are the 4 main points of evolution?
What is Variation, Inheritance, Selection, Time and Adaptation (VISTA)
400
What determines how much I look like my parents?
What is chromosomes carrying genes
500
What 3 things does melanin determine?
What is eye, hair and skin color
500
When do cells duplicate their DNA?
WHat is during mitosis
500
What mutations will not result in a change to the amino acid sequence of a protein?
What is silent mutation
500
Is evolution is a scientifically valid theory?
What is yes, evolution is a fact and a well-supported scientific theory
500
What is the difference between transcription and translation?
What is the process by which DNA is copied to RNA is called transcription, and that by which RNA is used to produce proteins is called translation.