DNA Structure
Watson and Crick used this term to describe the shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
This is what results from copying one molecule of DNA
What are two molecules of DNA?
What do genes do?
They tell cells what to do?
This is where DNA replication takes place.
What is the nucleus?
A 3-base sequence of mRNA.
What is a codon?
The sugars and the phosphates.
What is the "backbone of a DNA molecule"?
This is the first step in the replication of one DNA molecule.
What is the unwinding of DNA?
How many genes to humans have?
80,000 genes?
What is inside every cell in your body?
What is Chromosomes?
What are proteins made up of?
What is amino acids?
The type of bond that holds bases together in the double helix.
What is a hydrogen bond?
This is what you call a "G" binding with a "C" or an "A" binding with a "T".
What is a base pair?
What pair with A?
Wha pairs with G?
What is T?
What is C?
Where do your genes come from?
What is your parents?
What does proteins do?
What is proteins build cells and tissues or work as enzymes?
What can you do with DNA after you take it out of an organism?
Cut it into smaller pieces, and place into another organism?
The enzyme that is used to make a copy of a DNA molecule.
What is DNA polymerase?
Genes are a set of insructions that are passed from?
Parent to child?
Why is the white blood cell dark on the computer screen?
Because it has chromosomes in it?
Define a gene?
What is a specific piece of DNA?
The four chemicals of DNA are?
Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine?
Transcribe the DNA code:
CTAGGTCAAT
What is GATCCAGTTA?
What is a piece of a DNA molecule?
A gene?
How many pairs are in the human sets of chromosomes?
What are 23 pairs?