DNA & GENES
Gene Function
Cell Division
Meiosis
Genes
100

The long DNA molecule is made of many smaller subunits know as __________. 

What are nucleotides?

100

DOUBLE POINTS 

Proteins built by ribosomes found in the _______ . 

What is the cytoplasm?

100

The process of growth and reproduction is 

What is the cell cycle?

100

True or False: 

Meiosis is where an organism can be cut in half and grow into a new organism

What is False
100

Tripple Points

Information in a gene is ___________ into mRNA before being sent out of the nucleus. 

What is Transcribed?

200

DOUBLE POINTS 

Name the 4 types of bases found in DNA 

What are Guanine, cytosine, adenine, and thymine?

200

mRNA stand for...

What is messenger RNA 

200

Cells spend most of their lives in...?

What is interphase?

200

True or False 

Sexual reproduction uses egg and sperm to fertilize?

What is true?

200

Cells store information in ______, a kind of nucleic acid. 

What is DNA?

300

Each section of a DNA molecule that codes for a unique protein is called ________?

What is a Gene?
300

tRNA stands for...?

What is transfer RNA.

300

DOUBLE POINTS 

Name the 5 stages of mitosis in order. 

What is prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and cytokinesis. 
300

This occurs when two haploid gametes unite and form a diploid cell...

What is fertilization?

300

DOUBLE POINTS

A gene is a section of DNA that codes for a ________ .

What is a Protein?

400

Describe the shape of DNA's double helix?

What is shaped like a twisted ladder?

400

Describe an engineered system

What is a group of things that are planned, designed, and built to work together to so a certain jobs?

400

This is produces after cytokines

What is produces two new daughter cells?

400

This contains two of every kind of chromosomes typically found in the organism.

What is a zygote?

400

DOUBLE POINTS 

The cell cycle is the cycle of growth and ________ in cells.

What is reproduction?

500

Pair the 4 bases in the correct pairing order. 

Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Thymine

Guanine-Cytosine 

Adenine-Thymine 

500

Where Transcription and Translation takes place...

Transcription takes place in the nucleus 

Translation takes place in the cytoplasm

500

True or False 

Mitosis happens in asexual reproduction?

What is true?

500

What book of the Bible is creation first found in?

What is Genesis?

500

DOUBLE POINTS 

Meiosis includes two cell divisions, name them. 

What is Meiosis I and Meiosis II