DNA
This is the structure (shape) of DNA
What is a double helix
This is one type of mutation.
What is insertion/deletion/addition/point/non-disjunction/chromosomal...?
This organelle is referred to as the protein making factory.
What is the ribosome?
Cell respiration occurs in this organelle
What is the mitochondria?
This is the complementary DNA strand for GAACTA.
What is CTTGAT?
This is the organelle that contains DNA.
What is the nucleus?
DNA mutations MAY affect the production of this molecule.
A piece of DNA that codes for a protein.
What is a gene?
This is the process of cell division when one parent cell divides to create two identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
The mRNA transcribed from the DNA strand GAACTA.
What is CUUGAU?
These are the 4 nitrogen bases found in DNA.
What are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine?
While some mutations are caused by environmental factors such as exposure to specific chemicals, most mutations are caused by this.
What are random, spontaneous errors?
Three amino mRNA bases that code for one amino acid.
What is a codon?
This type of macromolecule stores long-term energy and helps form membranes in the cell.
What are lipids?
These are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
These are the three parts of a nucleotide.
What are nitrogen base, phosphate, and deoxyribose sugar?
This type of mutation removes a nitrogen base.
What is a deletion mutation?
This form of RNA brings the amino acid to the ribosome.
What is tRNA or transfer RNA?
This type of cell does not have a nucleus or other membrane bound organelles.
What is a prokaryote?
This is the process of turning genes "on" or "off"
What is gene expression?
This is the building block (or monomer) of DNA.
What is a nucleotide?
The type of mutation shown here: Original DNA: AATCCGA Mutated DNA: AAGCCGA
What is a substitution mutation?
The central dogma
What is: DNA contains the instructions that are copied into RNA to then make a protein?
DNA -> mRNA -> Protein
This type of cell does not have a cell wall or chloroplasts.
What is an animal cell?
This is the percentage of an organism's DNA that is contained in each of it's individual cells.
What is 100%? (ALL your DNA is in each cell)