Vocabulary
What Does DNA Look Like?
How DNA Works
Mixed Review
100
Molecule that carries our hereditary information.
What is DNA?
100
The letters that represent the four bases.
What is A, T, G, & C?
100
Three bases code for one of these.
What is an amino acid?
100
A measure of the size of a body or region in three-dimensional space.
What is volume?
200
Organelle that makes proteins.
What is ribosome?
200
The "rungs" of the DNA ladder are made of these.
What is a pair of bases?
200
A change in DNA sequence that can be harmful, helpful or make no difference.
What is mutation?
200
The type of model that illustrates a Punnett square.
What is mathematical model?
300
A molecule that helps build new proteins by copying DNA.
What is RNA?
300
Sides of the DNA "ladder" are made of these.
What is sugar and phosphate?
300
ribonucleic acid that copies DNA and goes to the ribosome.
What is messenger RNA?
300
Causes a reaction or change in an organism or any part of an organism.
What is stimulus?
400
The shape Rosalind Franklin uncovered with her X-ray diffraction and Watson and Crick built a model for.
What is double helix?
400
One of the four possible bases in a string of DNA - it pairs with adenine.
What is thymine?
400
A mutation in which one base is left out.
What is deletion.
400
Are four chemical activities in living tings that require energy.
What is making food, breaking down food, moving materials into and out of cells, and building new cells?
500
Genes are located in these bundles that are found in the nucleus of most cells.
What is chromosomes?
500
Subunit of DNA that consists of a sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrogenous base
What is nucleotide?
500
What transfer RNA molecules transfer.
What is amino acids.
500
A molecule that cast as the main energy source for cell processes.
What is ATP?