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Cell/Tissue Architecture
Cell Division
DNA Replication
Genomes
Social Media
100
These cellular junctions prevent the free passage of molecules between the cells they connect.
What are tight junctions?
100
Chromosomes align in the middle of the cell during this stage of mitosis.
What is metaphase?
100
This enzyme unwinds DNA.
What is helicase?
100
This term describes the total genetic material (DNA or RNA) transmitted from parent to offspring.
What is the genome?
100
This popular site enables users to connect with friends and family by sharing status updates, personal photos, and sending messages.
What is Facebook?
200
This term describes the rapid assembly and disassembly of microtubules.
What is dynamic instability?
200
Human body cells are diploid, which means that they have this many chromosomes.
What are 46?
200
Newly synthesized DNA that is generated in short, discontinuous pieces is described as the ____________ strand.
What is the lagging strand?
200
These organisms arrange their DNA in a structure called the nucleoid.
What are prokaryotes?
200
This app is similar to microblogging. Be sure to stay within your 140 characters!
What is Twitter?
300
This motor protein walks from the minus end of a microtubule towards the plus end.
What is kinesin?
300
Prokaryotic cells divide asexually using this type of cell division.
What is binary fission?
300
This enzyme synthesizes the new DNA strand from an existing template.
What is DNA polymerase?
300
This organism is made up of a nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) and a protein coat (a capsid).
What is a virus?
300
This is an image messaging app that makes videos and pictures available for a short period of time before disappearing.
What is Snapchat?
400
This cytoskeletal structure is needed for muscle contraction.
What is a microfilament?
400
These kinase proteins activate other proteins that promote the cell cycle.
What are cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs)?
400
A PCR reaction requires these four components.
What is template DNA, DNA polymerase, all 4 deoxynucleoside triphosphates (A, T, C, G), and two primers?
400
This sequence motif is defined as a long stretch of codons with no stop codon.
What is an open reading frame motif?
400
This platform provides a source of inspiration for topics concerning DIY projects, fashion, lifestyle, and travel.
What is Pinterest?
500
These transmembrane proteins attach cells together.
What are cadherins?
500
This tumor suppressor prevents cell division when DNA is damaged.
What is p53?
500
DNA synthesis is terminated during Sanger sequencing due to incorporation of a dideoxynucleotide that lacks this group.
What is the 3’ free hydroxyl group on the incoming nucleotide.
500
These long repeated sequences may be several thousand nucleotides long and may be next to each other in the genome.
What are tandem repeats?
500
This is a professional networking site connects job seekers and employers.
What is LinkedIn?