DNA
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid.
What goes with Adenine?
Thymine
When new DNA cells are made new DNA is needed for what?
For the daughter cell
A gene is a portion of what?
chromosomes that is made of DNA.
What is homozygous dominant?
When both alleles are dominant.
Where is DNA located?
In the nucleus.
What goes with Cytosine?
Guanine
In the eukaryotic cells where does DNA replication take place? And during what?
In the nucleus during interphase?
Genetics is the study of how genes what?
Interact with one another and heredity.
What is homozygous recessive?
When both alleles are recessive.
What does DNA store?
Hereditary information.
What is each nitrogenous bases specific for?
A sequence/order to code for a specific gene?
Different enzymes help replicate what?
DNA
What are examples of traits for genetics?
Hair, Eye color, Height.
when is an organism heterozygous?
When there is one dominant allele and one recessive allele.
Where are DNA proteins inherited from?
Parents
What is a gene?
A gene is a piece of DNA that codes for traits.
DNA is unzipped in order to separate what?
The two strands of the double helix.
What is each trait controlled by.
Two genes called alleles.
What is the punnet square used to discover?
Probability that an offspring that expresses a specific trait.
What's the structure of DNA?
Double helix.
How would the nitrogenous bases be equal?
A has to be with T and
G has to be with C
New DNA is formed to match up what?
the separated DNA according to the nitrogenous base pairs.
Each allele is a form of what?
Of that gene.
What do the four boxes represent? Where are the alleles for each parent written?
The allele of one offspring. Parent one is written on the top and parent two is written on the side.