Vocabulary - Basic
What is DNA?
The use and application of living things and biological processes.
What is biotechnology?
The paired bases are this with each other.
What is complementary?
Changes in number, type, or order of bases on a piece of DNA are known as this.
What are mutations?
Adenine goes with this.
What is thymine?
The structure of DNA is in this shape.
What is the double helix?
Impacts both out society and our environment.
How does biotechnology impact our world?
This results from mutations that harm the normal function of a cell.
What is a genetic disorder?
This is when a base is left out.
What is a deletion?
Cytosine goes with this.
What is guanine?
A base, a sugar, and a phosphate group make a building block of DNA known as this.
What is a nucleotide?
Used to make copies of small traces of DNA found at crime scenes or on ancient artifacts.
Some of the information in the DNA is copied to a separate molecule called this.
What is RNA?
This is when an extra base is added in.
What is an insertion?
Uracil goes with this.
What is adenine?
What are the three types of mutations?
Artificial selection, genetic engineering, and cloning.
What are the three applications of biotechnology.
This is a cell organelle made of ribosomal RNA and protein.
What is a ribosome?
This is when one base replaces another.
What is substitution?
Thymine and Uracil.
What does adenine go with?
These are physical or chemical agents that DNA is damaged by and mutations are caused by.
What are mutagens?
This is an organism, cell, or a piece of genetic material that is genetically identical to the one from which it was derived.
What is a clone?
This base is present in RNA, but not in DNA.
What is uracil?
This can destroy the cell.
What can mutations do?
Before a cell divides, it copies the DNA so that each new daughter sell will have a complete set of instructions.
When are copies of DNA made?