DNA and Genes Review Game

DNA Structure

100

Watson and Crick used this term to describe the shape of DNA.

What is a double helix?

200

The sugars and the phosphates.

What is the "backbone of a DNA molecule"?

300

The type of bond that holds bases together in the double helix.

What is a hydrogen bond?

400

A (nitrogenous) base, a sugar, and a phosphate.

What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide?

500

The monomer for DNA

What is a nucleotide?

DNA Replication

100

This is what results from copying one molecule of DNA

What are two identical molecules of DNA?

200

This is the first step in the replication of one DNA molecule.

What is the unwinding of DNA?

300

This is what you call a "G" binding with a "C" or an "A" binding with a "T".

What is a base pair?

400

This is the phase of the cell cycle in which DNA replication takes place

What is the "S" phase?

500

The term used to describe that the end product of DNA replication has identical strands containing one original and one new strand of DNA nucleotides.

What is semiconservative?

Common Code

100

Organisms which use DNA to code for proteins

What are ALL organisms

200

The kingdoms of organisms which use sequences of nitrogen bases to code for traits

What are Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Plantae, Fungi and Animalia?

300

Bacterial DNA can be modified so that it codes for human insulin proteins because of this.

What is a common genetic code among all organisms?

400

DNA bases used by all organisms.

What are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine?

500

A universal template for proteins used by all organisms

What is DNA?

Base Pairing

100

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What is a way to remember adenine pairs with thymine and guanine pairs with cytosine?

200

This is the complementary DNA strand to ^3'ATCGAT^5'

What is ^5'TAGCTA^3'?

300

This is the sequence that pairs with AAGTATCCT.

What is TTCATAGGA?

400

This is the complementary DNA strand to ATTCCATGCTTACCG

What is TAAGGTACGAATGGC?

500

This is the reason that if there are 50 thymine bases and 80 guanine bases present in a DNA strand, there will be 50 adenine bases and 80 cytosine bases in the same strand.

What is the rule that adenine always pairs with thymine and guanine always pairs with cytosine?

DNA Function

100

Storing genetic information

What is the purpose of DNA?

200

Providing the code for proteins.

What is the job of DNA?

300

The sequence of nitrogen bases

What is the part of DNA that codes for an organism's traits?

400

Providing the instructions for the traits of an organism

What is the function of DNA?

500

The template for the production of enzymes.

What is DNA?