Nitrogenous Bases
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Basic Facts
Mutations
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100

The number of nitrogenous bases

What is 4?

100

The number of chromosomes in the human body

What is 46?

100

The full form of DNA (Should be Pronounced Correctly)

What is deoxyribonucleic acid?

100

The definition of a DNA mutation

What is a change in the nucleotides within DNA?

100

The enzyme that unzips the double helix structure of DNA

What is DNA Helicase?

200

The full form of the ‘T’ base

What is thymine?

200

The definition of genetic engineering

What is the process of modifying genes?

200

The chemical building blocks for DNA

What are nucleotides?

200

The leading cause of death in America can be caused by mutations

What is heart disease or cancer?

200

The enzyme that puts DNA back together

What is DNA polymerase?

300

The full form of the "A" base


What is Adenine?

300

The difference between RNA and DNA

What is RNA is single stranded and DNA is double stranded.

300

The three parts of a DNA molecule

What is nitrogenous bases, deoxyribose sugar, and a phosphate group?

300

The effects of a DNA mutation.

What is no impact or major diseases?

300

The direction the polymerases move

What is 5-3 or 3-5

400

The two combining pairs of the bases (Letter Form)

What is A-T and G-C?

400

The definition of CRISPR

What is the gene editing tool that allows scientists to selectively modify DNA?

400

The shape of DNA

What is a double helix?

400

A cause for mutations that humans do to themselves.

What is smoking?

400

The function of the ligase

What is joining two strands of DNA

500

The spelling of the G-C pair of nitrogenous bases

What is guanine and cytosine?

500

The percentage of DNA we share with a banana

What is 50-60%?

500

The organism that we share the most DNA with

What is a chimpanzee?

500

The disease that occurs when mutations occur within the WRN gene. (Hint: Shares similar letters to the gene.)

What is Werner Syndrome?  

500

The two processes in which cells divide

What is Mitosis and Meiosis?