DNA replication is needed in order to _______________.
What is copy itself?
100
The suffix -ase means this.
What is enzyme?
200
DNA is this shape?
What is double helix?
200
A college professor gives you an assignment to find out how many cytosines there are in the genetic sequence of a species of frog. You find out that there are 30% guanines in the sequence. This is the percentage of the sequence that would be cytosines.
What is 30%?
200
The sequence of nitrogen bases in DNA molecules are _____________________ in all species.
What is different?
200
DNA is made continuously on this strand.
What is leading?
200
_________ untwists and unzips the DNA forming a replication fork and two template strands of DNA.
What is helicase?
300
DNA is a polymer for this macromolecule.
What is nucleic acid?
300
This rule states that the number of cytosines is equal to the amount of guanines and the amount of adenines is equal to the amount of thymines.
What is Chargaff's Rule?
300
This part of DNA codes for genes.
What is nitrogen bases?
300
DNA replication is bidirectional, with the leading strand having nucleotides attached continuously and the lagging strand _________.
What is containing short Okazaki fragments?
300
_______________ adds one nucleotide at a time in the 5' to 3' direction.
What is DNA Polymerase?
400
This makes up a nucleotide.
What is phosphate, sugar and nitrogen base?
400
This is the complimentary sequence to this template strand.
3' C T C G T G C C T A G G 5'
What is 5' G A G C A C G G A T C C 3' ?
400
A segment of DNA that codes for a specific trait is called a ___________________
What is a gene?
400
Half of the new double helix molecule is composed of an original strand and the other half is a newly created strand is an example of this.
What is semi-conservative?
400
DNA polymerase adds complimentary bases to the two strands of DNA: the ______________ and _____________.
What is leading and lagging?
500
The DNA backbone is alternating units of these.
What is carbon sugar and phosphate?
500
A college professor gives you an assignment to find out how many guanines there are in the genetic sequence of a species of frog. You find out that there are 30% thymines in the sequence. This is the percentage of the sequence that would be guanine.
What is 20%?
500
Genes are located on this structure within our nucleus.
What are chromosomes?
500
DNA replication occurs at this region of DNA.
What is replication forks?
500
DNA polymerase creates Okazaki Fragments on the lagging strand of DNA because it can only do this.