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Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Duplication
Its a Code!
Parts is Parts
Teanage Ninja Turtles?
100
"Spiraled" Molecules that carry an organisms genetic information.
What is DNA?
100
Process that produces an identical copy of an organisms DNA.
What is Replication?
100
Term used to describe which nucleotide bases match up in a strand of DNA
What are Complimentary Pairs?
100
Only these types of cells use Mitosis to duplicate.
What are Eukaryotes?
100
A change in the order of the bases in an organisms DNA
What is a Mutation?
200
The distance covered by a humans total amount of DNA if stretched out end-to-end.
What is 600,000,000 km (to the sun and back 2x)
200
4-phase process that results in the duplication of a cell and its nucleus.
What is Mitosis?
200
3 bases in sequence makes one of these.
What is an Amino Acid?
200
Protein factory of cells.
What is a Ribosome?
200
List the 3 types of mutations
What is Insertion, Deletion, and Substitution?
300
The 3 subunits (parts) that a Nucleotide is made of.
What is a sugar molecule, a phosphate molecule, and a Nitrogenous Base?
300
Prokaryotic cells divide using this process.
What is the Binary Fission?
300
Many amino acids linked together make these.
What is a Protein?
300
A segment of DNA that codes for a particular protein.
What is a Gene (or Allele)?
300
Any agent that can cause damage to a cells DNA.
What is a Mutagen?
400
Purposeful manipulation of genes that allows scientists to alter an organisms DNA.
What is Genetic Engineering?
400
Molecules that take amino acid codons to ribosomes for protein synthesis.
What is a Transfer Molecule?
400
Identify the complimentary strand for the following genetic code; A-C-T-T-G-A-T
What is T-G-A-A-C-T-A?
400
Structure in a cell that carries the DNA.
What is a Chromosome?
400
A A T G G C T A C G G become A A T G G C A C G G during replication. Name the type and location of the mutation that has occured.
What is a Deletion? The second code is missing a Thyamine base after A A T G G C.
500
The enzyme responsible for dissolving the bonds between the bases during replication.
What is Helicase?
500
List the 4 phases of Mitosis.
What is Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase?
500
DNA codes are replicated during this phase of cell division.
What is Interphase?
500
Cellular and Nuclear membranes in cells are made of this substance.
What is a Lipid (fat)?
500
Explain how Mutations may not always result in a negative phenotype.
What is it can result in a positive adaptation or be un-noticable.