Clues in the Chromosomes
These help regulate body functions, like growth and development.
What are hormones?
Sequence of nucleotides that code for proteins.
What are genes?
The process of RNA to protein
What is translation?
Uncontrolled cancer that metastasizes through the bloodstream
What is malignant cancer?
An organisms physically expressed traits
What is a phenotype?
A technician who harvests cells from different samples
What is a cytogeneticist?
Group of three bases found on an RNA strand that represent amino acids.
What are codons?
These are the building blocks of proteins
What are amino acids?
Cancer/tumor that remains stationary and is usually harmless
What is benign cancer?
In order to be expressed, this allele MUST be homogeneous
What is a recessive allele
A image of the chromosome pairs of a cell arranged by size and shape.
What is a karyotype?
A single stranded nucleic acid involved in the process of making proteins.
What is RNA (Ribonucleic Acid)?
The RNA responsible for moving a single strand of RNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm
What is messenger RNA?
The type of mutation that occurs when one base is replaced by another.
What is a substitution?
When two different alleles are present in a genotype
What is heterozygous?
The oldest human cell line used in research.
What are Hela cells?
Translation of RNA to protein happens here
Where is the cytoplasm?
The RNA responsible for moving codons to be read as amino acids
What is transfer RNA?
A mutation that does not change the sequence of amino acids and does not cause disease.
What is a silent mutation?
Two different variations of genes are called this
What are alleles?
A visual display of chromosomes after they are released from cells, stained, and spread onto a slide to be viewed under a microscope.
What is a chromosome spread?
The creation of RNA from a DNA template.
What is transcription?
Every protein in the human body begins with this codon.
What is a AUG?
What is Proline?
This type of allele will always be expressed if present
What is a dominant allele?