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Vocab
Misc.
100

What forms the genetic code?

The order of nitrogen bases along a gene, and it specifies what protein will be produced.

100

How does a cell make proteins?

During Protein synthesis the cell uses information from a gene on a chromosome to produce a specific protein

100

How does cancer spread?

It spreads through the blood stream.

100

What is a disease in which cells grow and divide uncontrollable, damaging the organs around it?

What is cancer?
100

What song does Olivia Birkle love to sing on the bus?

What is I will stand up take my people with me?

200
How does DNA copy itself?

the way nitrogen bases pair up the order of the bases in each new DNA strand exactly matches the order in the original DNA

200

What makes proteins different from others?

The order or structure of amino acids.

200

Why is skin cancer so dangerous?

Your skin is the largest organ and has the easiest access to the blood stream, meaning the cancer could spread through the body rapidly

200

What carries amino acids to the ribosome and adds them to the growing protein to the ribosome in the cytoplasm.

What is tRNA?

200

What was the book we read in 5th grade about the sister who has a brother with special needs?

What is RULES?

300

What forms the rungs on DNA?

What are NITROGEN BASES

300

WHat would happen to the cell in the DNA's information was lost or destroyed?

All cellular functions would be gone, traits will be lost, the organism could not live.

300

How do mutations affect an organism?

Mutations can cause a  cell to produce an incorrect protein during protein synthesis. As a result the organism's trait may be different from what the original would be.

300

What are the molecules that contain nitrogen and other elements?

What are Nitrogen Bases?

300

What is the position in government where you have the ability to speak out on a public issue?

What is the bully pulpit?

400

How can a parent pass a trait such as eye color to its offspring?

It passes it through genes on a chromosome, and the genes are made of proteins.

400

How is DNA replication different from making mRNA?

DNA-double stranded, uses thymine, stays in the nucleus

mRNA-single stranded uses uracil, leaves the nucleus

400

What are the three types of mutations?

Insertion, Deletion, Substitution

400

What is the process in which an identical copy of DNA is formed for a new cell?

What is DNA replication?

400

What branch of government is the law making branch?

What is the legislative branch?

500

What are the start and stop codons?

AUG/MET

UAA,UAG,UGA

500
Where does mRNA go after it is made?

To a ribosome in the cytoplasm

500

How is cancer related to mutation and the cell cycle?

Cancer begins when mutation disrupt the usual cell cycle, causing the cells to divide in an uncontrollable way.

500

What is the definition of a tumor?

A mass of abnormal cells that develops when cells divide and grow uncontrollably

500

Who is the president pro tempro?

Who is PATTY MURRAY?