History
The shape Rosalind Franklin determined DNA has
What is spiral?
DNA is made up of what type of subunit?
nucleotides
When does DNA replicate itself?
Before the cell divides (during interphase)
What is a mutation
What is a change in DNA?
Proteins are made of this
What are amino acids?
How do organisms get their DNA?
What is the nucleus?
They type of mutation when a base is added
What is insertion?
The organelle that 'reads' the mRNA in the cytoplasm and adds the correct amino acids
What is ribosomes?
Built a model of DNA
What are adenine, cytosine, thymine, guanine?
The string of nucleotides that give the cell information about how to make a specific trait
What is a gene?
They type of mutation when a base is lost or removed
What is deletion?
The name of the process when DNA is 'changed' into mRNA
What is transcription?
Name of the technique that enabled Rosalind Franklin to determine shape of DNA
What is x-ray diffraction?
What is the name of the shape of DNA?
What is double helix?
The base that is not used in RNA that is used in DNA
What is thymine?
The example in the book of a disease caused by a substitution mutation
What is sick cell disease or sick cell anemia?
bases are read in groups of three called this
What is a codon?
The full name of scientist who paired A and T, and C and G
Who is Erwin Chargaff?
The name of the sugar in DNA
What is deoxyribose?
What does each set of three nucleotides code for?
Identify the kind of mutation:
Original: TGCCAC ACGGTG
Mutated Strand: TGGCCAC ACCGGTG
What is insertion?
The name of the base that replaces thymine in mRNA
What is uracil?