Gilman DNA Unit
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| What is another name for deoxyribonucleic acid? | DNA
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| The material that contains information that determines inherited characteristics is? | DNA
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| What pairs with adenine? (one of four possible bases in a string of DNA) | Thymine
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| Name a subunit of DNA that consists of a sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrogenous base. | Nucleotide
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| What is the complement of guanine? | Cytosine
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| What letters represent the four bases? | A, T, G, C
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| What did Rosalind Franklin show the shape of DNA to be when using X-ray diffraction? | a spiral
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| Watson and Crick build a DNA model in what shape? | a long,twisted ladder
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| What are the sides of the DNA "ladder" made of? | sugar and phosphate
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| What are the "rungs" of the DNA ladder made of? | pair of bases
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| Where does a DNA molecule split when copied? | down the middle
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| What ribonucleic acid copies DNA and goes to the ribosome? | Messenger RNA
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| What is the cell organelle where protein is synthesized? | Ribosome
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| Name the type of RNA that delivers amino acids to make a protein. | Transfer RNA
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| What is a change in DNA sequence that can be helpful, harmful or make no change at all? | Mutation
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| What is a string of nucleotides that has instructions for a certain trait? | Gene
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| What is a messenger RNA matched with when fed through the ribosome? | Transfer RNA
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| What do three bases code for? | one Amino Acid
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| In what type of mutation is one base left out? | Deletion
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| What is a tobacco plant with a firefly gene that makes it glow an example of? | Genetic Engineering
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| What describes the relationship between genes and DNA? | Genes contain DNA
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| Do Genes contain DNA? | Yes
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| DNA is made of what subunits? | Nucleotides
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| Nucleotides are made of a sugar, a phosphate, and a what? | Base
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| Who discovered that the amount of adenine in DNA always equals the amount of thymine? | Rosalind Franklin
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| What is the first step in making a protein? | RNA copying DNA
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| In what type of mutation is a base added to a gene? | Insertion
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| What is it called when DNA is used to identify who committed a crime? | DNA fingerprinting
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| What causes genetic disorders such as sickle cell anemia? | Mutations
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| What is the complementary strand to the DNA sequence TAGTCA? | ATCAGT
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| Genes have instructions for making what? | Proteins
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| Sickle Cell Anemia is caused by which type of mutation? | Substitution
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| Name the first step of DNA replication. | A strand of DNA splits down the middle.
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| Name the type of mutation where on base is replaced by another. | Substitution
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| Name what is shaped like a double helix and determines inherited characteristics. | DNA
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| What molecule makes a mirror copy of sections of of DNA and helps make proteins? | RNA
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| What is a change in DNA caused by random errors or mutagens? | Mutation
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| What material, made of amino acids, causes most of the differences in organisms? | Proteins
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