Characteristics of DNA
The nitrogen bases that make up DNA
What are:
Adenine
Thymine
Guanine
The complementary stand of DNA: CTAGGT
What is GATCCA?
The sugar found in RNA
What is ribose?
The type of RNA that is made in the nucleus then travels to the cytoplasm
What is mRNA?
An agent that may ccause mutations
What is a mutagen?
One DNA nucleotide is made up of these 3 parts.
What is a phosphate group, nitrogen base, deoxyribose?
The spot where the DNA separates into 2 strands
What is replication?
The base found in RNA but not DNA
What is uracil?
The enzyme that binds and unzips DNA.
What is RNA polymerase?
The 3 types of point mutations
Substitution, deletion, and insertion.
The structure/shape of DNA
Double Helix
What is the nucleus?
What is 3?
The structure that brings the amino acid into the ribosome
What is tRNA?
Once every 10 million bases.
These two were given credit for figuring out the structure and function of DNA
Who were Watson and Crick?
True or False: There is only 1 starting point of replication for eukaryotes
What is FALSE?
What RNA stands for
What is Ribonucleic Acid?
Information is transferred from ____ to ____ to ____.
DNA, RNA, Protein.
Daily Double: The term used for when an organism has an extra set of chromosomes
What is polyploidy?
In a sample of DNA, cytosine exists 30% of the time, which means thymine exists what percent?
What is 20%?
The enzyme that attaches new nucleotides to the original strand of DNA
What is DNA polymerase?
RNA is formed in the _____ and then travels to the _____
Nucleus and Cytoplasm.
The 3 letters at the bottom of the tRNA
What is anticodon?
The type of mutation when one chromosome breaks off and attaches to another
What is translocation?