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DNA
DNA REPLICATION
PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
MITOSIS & MEIOSIS
SCIENCE POTPOURRI
100
It is what the letters stand for.
What is DeoxyriboNucleicAcid?
100
This is what occurs after DNA replication.
What is cell division?
100
The location of actual protein synthesis in the cell.
What is the cytoplasm?
100
This occurs prior to cell division.
What is DNA replication?
100
Scientific authority on chimpanzees.
Who is Jane Goodall?
200
The complementary bases.
What is A=T and C=G?
200
The DNA double helix is unzipped by this.
What is DNA helicase?
200
The subunits of protein.
What are amino acids?
200
Two identical copies of a single chromosome joined by a centromere.
What are sister chromatids?
200
The largest of the apes.
What is the gorilla?
300
The sugar of DNA.
What is deoxyribose?
300
The location of this process.
What is the nucleus?
300
The molecule that carries the code from the nucleus to the cytoplasm.
What is messenger RNA (mRNA)?
300
The stage where most cells spend most of their time.
What is interphase?
300
The most dangerous insect in the world.
What is the mosquito?
400
After replication, the DNA molecule does this.
What is wind up into a double helix?
400
The place where the enzyme unzips the DNA molecule.
What is at the hydrogen bonds between the nitrogenous bases?
400
The role of RNA polymerase.
What is to create the mRNA strand by reading the section of DNA template from the promoter to the terminator?
400
The terms used to distinguish the type of cell undergoing cell division.
What are somatic and gametic?
400
Besides the burning of fossil fuels, two major causes of global climate change.
What are deforestation, farming, and industrial waste/landfills?
500
Five scientists who contributed to our understanding of DNA.
Who are Watson, Crick, Wilkins, Chargaff, Franklin, MacCleod, Avery, Griffith, McCarty, Hershey, and Chase?
500
The final product.
What is an exact copy of the original DNA molecule?
500
The names of three amino acids.
What are ....see amino acid chart.
500
The difference in ploidy between cells undergoing mitosis and those undergoing meiosis.
What is diploid/2n versus haploid/n?
500
Three leading causes of death for teens.
What are unintentional injury, homicide, suicide, cancer, and heart disease?