DNA
What is the nucleus?
The four nitrogen bases found in RNA.
What are adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil?
The name of the first stage of protein synthesis.
What is transcription?
The division of body cells
What is mitosis?
The number of cells produced during mitosis?
What is two?
The three chemicals that make up nucleotides.
What are a sugar, a phosphate and a base?
The type of sugar found in RNA.
What is ribose?
The name of the second stage of protein synthesis.
What is translation?
The name of the chromosomes that line up together during metaphase 1.
What are homologous chromosomes?
The number of cells produced by meiosis.
What is four?
The type of sugar found in DNA.
What is deoxyribose?
The type of RNA that is responsible for copying the DNA in the nucleus and carrying the information to the ribosome.
What is messanger RNA (mRNA)?
The location in the cell of the first stage of protein synthesis.
What is the nucleus?
The exchange of DNA between two chromosomes in a homologous pair.
What is crossing over?
The number of stages in the process of mitosis from start to finish.
What is six?
The four nitrogen bases found in DNA.
What are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine?
The type of RNA that carries amino acids to the ribosome.
What is transfer RNA (tRNA)?
The location in the cell of the second stage of protein synthesis.
What is a ribosome?
The stage in the cell cycle where the cell grows, copies DNA and prepares for division
What is interphase?
The number of chromosomes found in a human diploid cell.
What is 46?
What is the type of bond that holds the base pairs together?
What are Hydrogen bonds
It is what the "r" in rRNA stands for.
What is "ribosomal"?
The building blocks of proteins.
What are amino aicds?
The division that produces haploid cells
What is Meiosis?
An alligator cells has 28 chromosomes in its body cells. How many would be found in the gametes?
What is 14?
The enzyme that builds the new DNA strand
What is DNA polymerase?
The three base sequences on tRNA that matches up with a codon on the mRNA.
What are anti- codons?
The three base sequences on mRNA that code for a particular amino acid.
What are codons?
What cells are formed at the end of meiosis?
What are gametes?
If a horse has 64 chromosomes and a donkey has 62 chromosomes. How many would a mule have?