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Cells
Genetics
GenEn Vocab
Proteins
Club Information
100
The most basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
100
The structure of DNA.
What is the double helix?
100
The process of physically or chemically changing DNA for a specific purpose.
What is Genetic Engineering?
100
The organelle that is responsible for building proteins.
What are ribosomes?
100
The names of the administrators of this club.
Who are Dr. Lollin and Ms. Wilson?
200
The organelle that DNA is stored in.
What is the nucleus?
200
What DNA stands for.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
200
The scientific name for duckweed.
What is Landoltia Punctata?
200
The building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
200
The name of the organism that we are working with.
What is duckweed?
300
The organelle other than the nucleus that houses genetic information.
What is the mitochondrion?
300
The names of the 4 nitrogenous bases.
What is are Adanine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine?
300
A sequence of three nucleotides that codes for a certain amino acid or signals the termination of translation.
What is a codon?
300
Proteins that lower the activation energy for and speed up biochemical reactions
What are enzymes?
300
The name of the organization at Rutgers that this club is associated with.
What is the Waksman Institute?
400
The structure in the cell that regulates what moves in and out of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
400
The complete DNA sequence for an entire organism.
What is a genome?
400
To destroy the characteristic properties of a protein or other biological macromolecule by heat, acidity, or other effects.
What is denature?
400
The structure that encodes information about how to make a protein.
What are genes?
400
The database where your published protein sequences go.
What is NCBI?
500
The cell breaks down glucose to make this.
What is ATP?
500
The material that carries genetic information from DNA to the ribosomes.
What is mRNA?
500
UTR in 5' UTR and 3' UTR stands for....
Untranslated region
500
These hold proteins together.
What are peptide bonds?
500
It is beneficial to study duckweed because it is....
What is biofuel?