Show:
Secret Code
Teenage Mutant Ninja Chromosomes
Mutations "R" Us
Wheel of Codon
Crack the Code
100
A single-stranded nucleic acid that contains the sugar ribose.
What is RNA?
100
TACGTATGGAAA C comes out T goes in
What is substitution?
100
A change in the genetic material of a cell.
What is mutation?
100
GGU
What is glycine?
100
GGGCTAAT
What is CCGATTA?
200
The synthesis of an RNA molecule from DNA template or pattern.
What is transcription?
200
TAC GCATGGAAA Place an A where the space is.
What is insertion?
200
A gene mutation in which a single base pair in DNA has been changed.
What is point mutation?
200
ACG
What is Threanine?
200
GTAATC
What is CATTAG?
300
A long chain of amino acids that makes proteins.
What is a polypeptide?
300
TAC CATGGAAT A G is removed from the space.
What is deletion?
300
A mutation that shifts the "reading frame" of the genetic message by inserting or deleting a nucleotide.
What is frameshift mutation?
300
CAC
What is histidine?
300
CTACTATGTA
What is GATGATACAT?
400
A collection of codons of mRNA each of which directs the incorporation of a perticular amino acid into a protein during protein synthesis.
What is genetic code?
400
ABC DEF ACB DEF
What is inversion?
400
A chemical or physical agent in the environment that interacts with DNA and may cause mutation.
What are mutagens?
400
UGG
What is tryptophan? Extra bonus.....where have you heard this tem before? (200)
400
GGCTAAC
What is CCGATTG?
500
A group of 3 nucleotide bases in mRNA that specify a particular amino acid to be incorporated into a protein.
What is a codon?
500
ABC DEF AC DEF
What is deletion?
500
A condition in which an organism has extra sets of chromosomes.
What is polyploidy?
500
AAA
What is Lysine?
500
TAGACAT
What is ATCTGTA?