Cancer
What type of cancer occurs on the skin?
Melanoma
What is the term used to describe the structure of DNA?
What is a double helix?
What is the name of the first phase of mitosis?
What is prophase?
What is the transmission of traits from a parent to offspring?
What is Heredity?
What is the name of the technology that allows the nucleotide sequence to be edited in cells?
What type of cancerous tumor has the ability to spread throughout the body?
Malignant tumor
What is messenger RNA?
What is cytokenisis?
What is the name of the term describing identical alleles?
What is Homozygous?
What is the term for the method used to produce multiple copies of a piece of DNA?
What is DNA cloning?
What is the spreading of cancer throughout the body called?
Metastatis
What is the status of DNA replication?
What is semi-conservative?
What is XY?
The name of an allele that will not affect the individual on its own, but will need two copies of the allele to express its phenotype.
What is a Recessive Allele?
What is the term for a naturally occuring enzyme that synthesizes a new DNA strand that is complementary to a single-stranded DNA sample?
What is DNA polymerase?
What is the name for an abnormal protein that fails to regulate the cell cycle?
Hint: This protein is a key component in a malignant cancer tumor
Oncogene
What are the full names of each of the 4 possible bases of DNA?
What is Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine?
In the interphase of meiosis, what happens to the chromosomes in the nucleus?
What is duplication?
Name of a chart describing genetic family history.
What is a Pedigree?
What are organisms that have acquired one or more genes by artificial means?
What is Genetically-Modified organisms?
What type of cancer-destroying therapy uses drugs that disrupt cell division?
Chemotherapy
What is the name of a "stop" sequence? (when the RNA polymerase reaches a DNA "stop" sequence)
What is a terminator?
If a male has XXY chromosomes, what abnormalities occur in this person? (Klinefelter syndrome)
What is Sterile; underveloped testes; femininity
Term for a cross between two individuals that are heterozygous for one character.
What is Monohybrid Cross?
How many nucleotides does a organisms' entire set of DNA contain?
What is 3 billion?