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| What contains the genetic material for an organism? |
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| What are the coded instructions for traits? |
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| What is made of one long strand of DNA and special types of proteins that are tightly held together? |
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| What is deoxyribonucleic acid? |
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| sugar, phosphate, nitrogen bases |
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| What are the nitrogen bases? |
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| adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine |
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| What are the two types of nitrogen bases? |
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| Who were the two scientist who discovered the shape of DNA in 1953? |
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| What are the sides of the ladder in DNA made of? |
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| alternating phosphates and sugar |
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| The rungs of the ladder in DNA are made of what? |
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| How are the rungs of the DNA ladder held together? |
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| What are the three parts of a nucleotide? |
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| phosphate group, sugar (deoxyribose), and nitrogen base |
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| What are the steps to forming a nucleotide? |
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| Chromosomes--> DNA--> Nucleotide |
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| How does DNA replication work? |
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| DNA unzips and makes a copy of itself |
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| during interphase prior to mitosis and meiosis |
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| a permanent change in the DNA sequence |
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| What involves a single nucleotide? |
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| What is ribonucleic acid? |
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| What are the characteristics of RNA? |
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| single stranded, it's sugar is ribose, bases are Adenine, uracil, guanine and cytosine |
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| What does the "You" in "You Are Single" for RNA stand for? |
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| What does the "Are" in "You Are Single" for RNA stand for? |
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| What does the "Single" in "You Are Single" for RNA stand for? |
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| Single strand of nucleotides |
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| What are the three types of RNA? |
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| messenger, ribosomal, and trnasfer |
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| What type of RNA carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the cytoplasm? |
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| What type of RNA binds to mRNA and uses its information to assemble amino acids? |
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| What type of RNA delivers amino acids to the ribosome to be assembled into proteins? |
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| What is the flow of genetic information? |
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| DNA (transcription), RNA (translation), and protein |
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