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What are mutagens?
What does DNA look like?
What is DNA?
How are Copies of DNA made?
Vocabulary
100
Changes in the number, type, or order of bases on a piece of DNA
What are mutagens?
100
The structure of DNA that is a twisted ladder shape.
What is a double helix?
100
Sets of rules and symbols used to carry out information are ______.
What are codes?
100
During ______, 2 strands of DNA separate like 2 threads in a string being unwound.
What is replication?
100
When DNA has an extra base it is called a _______.
What is an insertion?
200
When the base is left out.
What is deletion?
200
Adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine are the four _____.
What are nucleotides?
200
DNA holds information that a cell needs to ______, _______, and _________.
What is function, grow, and divide?
200
When replication is complete, there are _______________.
What are 2 identical DNA molecules?
200
When one base replaces another
What is substitution?
300
Cells make proteins that fix errors in____.
What is DNA?
300
A base, a sugar and a phosphate group make up a _______.
What is a nucleotide?
300
______ make up much of the structure of a cell and do most of the work of a cell.
What are proteins?
300
Each new DNA molecule is made of one strand of ___ DNA and one strand of ___ DNA.
What is old, new?
300
_______ results from mutations that harm the normal functions of a cell.
What is a genetic disorder?
400
When DNA is damaged, it is damaged by chemical or physical agents called _____.
What are mutagens?
400
Segments of DNA that relate to a certain trait are ____.
What are genes?
400
DNA stands for ___________.
What is Deoxyribonucleic?
400
_________ match up and join to the open DNA strands during replication.
What are nucleotides?
400
During replication, as the bases of the original molecule are exposed, ________ are added.
What are complementary nucleotides?
500
An inherited genetic disorder
What is Tay-Sachs disease or sickle-cell amenia?
500
Adenine is always paired with _____.
What is thymine?
500
__________, __________, _________, _________ contributed to the discovery of DNA.
Who are Friedrich Miescher, Phoebus Levene, Erwin Chargaff, and Rosalind Franklin?
500
Many groups of _____ are working to replicate your DNA at the same time.
What are proteins?
500
HI MS.KIDD!!!!!!!!!!!! Usually short, branched extension of the neuron cell body.
What is a dendrite?