DNA Basics
The shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
Where DNA is located within the cell.
What is the nucleus?
When a gene is turned off, it stops making this.
What are proteins?
This type of mutation changes one base for another.
What is a substitution?
This process makes gametes.
What is meiosis?
The building blocks of DNA.
What are bases or nucleotides?
This molecule's job is to copy DNA, one gene at a time.
What is RNA?
This environmental factor controls gene expression in the Himalayan rabbit.
What is temperature?
This environmental factor is a major source of skin cancer.
What is UV radiation?
This body systems allows gases to be exchanged.
What is the respiratory system?
Adenine's partner
What is thymine?
The building blocks of proteins
What are amino acids?
This is the study of gene expression. Identical twins are a great example.
What is Epigenetics?
This disease is characterized by abnormal blood cells.
What is sickle cell anemia?
This molecule stores energy during photosynthesis.
What is glucose?
This base is only found in RNA.
What is uracil?
These are the noncoding sections of a gene that must be removed.
What are introns?
These tags can stop transcription from occurring within a cell.
What are methyl tags?
This type of mutation causes the greatest change to a protein.
What are deletions?
The green pigment found in plants.
What is chlorophyll?
What is 30%?
These two organelles work together to make a protein.
What are the nucleus and ribosome?
When DNA is wrapped tightly around these proteins, transcription stops.
What are histones?
Mutations can cause harm by changing this about a protein.
What is the shape?
These are the three types of proteins.
What are enzymes, antibodies and hormones (receptors).