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Genetics-Vocabulary
A part of vocabulary on DNA words
Question | Answer |
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What does the word DNA mean ? | DNA is a chemical code that contains all the information for an organisms growth and development. |
What is Adenine and where is it found within the DNA? | Adenine is part of a nitrogen based pair that is connected with thymine. It is located in between the sides, it is a rung. |
What is Thymine and where is it found within the DNA? | Thymine is a rung that is connected to Adenine and and cant ever be connected to any other pair except Adenine without creating a error with dangers. |
What is Cytosine and what is it connected to within the DNA? | Cytosine is part of nitrogen base pairs and can only be connected with Guanine. |
What is Guanine and what is it connected to within the DNA? | Guanine is part of nitrogen base pairs and can only be connected with Cytosine. |
What is an Enzyme? | Proteins that seperate the DNA sides so that bases can pair with the original sides. |
What are Genes? | Genes are instructions for making specific proteins. They are found on chromosomesand determine most of the organism's characteristics. |
What is RNA? | RNA is half a ladder instead of a whole one,(unlike DNA) and contains Uracil instead of Deoxyribose. |
What are Mutations? | Mutations are any permanant change(s) in the DNA sequence of a gene or chromosome. |
What is Cytokinesis? | The division of the parent cell's cytoplasm, it happens immideatly after mitosis. |
What is Bianary Fission? | It is a form of asexual reproduction occuring in Prokaryotes. |
What is the Cell cycle? | The cell cycle is the normal sequence of development and division of a cell. |
What are chromosomes? | Chromosomes are compact structures that every organism has. |
What is Anaphase? | A phase where fibers pull the chromosomes apart into two equal sets of DNA, inside the cell. |
What is Metaphase? | The phase in mitosis where the Chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell. |
What is Mitosis? | It is a series of steps which are in the Cell cycle. It is part of cell division. |