DNA/RNA

Question 1

Chromosomes

Answer 1

A threadlike structure within a cell’s nucleus that contains DNA that is passed from one generation to the next.

Question 2

Double helix

Answer 2

The twisted ladder struction of DNA

Question 3

Nitrogen bases

Answer 3

Molecules that contain nitrogen and other substances that make up the rungs of DNA

Question 4

Adenine

Answer 4

One of the four kinds of nitrogen bases (make up the rungs)

Question 5

Thymine

Answer 5

The second of the four kinds of nitrogen bases(make up the rungs)

Question 6

Guanine

Answer 6

The third of the four kinds of nitrogen bases (make up the rungs)

Question 7

Cytosine

Answer 7

The last of the four kinds of nitrogen bases (make up the rungs)

Question 8

Gene

Answer 8

Section of the DNA molecule that contains the information to code one specific protein.

Question 9

DNA

Answer 9

Deoxyribonucleic acid; the genetic material that carries information about an organism and is passed from parent to offspring.

Question 10

DNA replication

Answer 10

The process in which the identical copy of DNA is formed for a new cell

Question 11

RNA

Answer 11

The messenger that carries the genetic code from DNA from inside the nucleus to the cytoplasm

Question 12

Uracil

Answer 12

A nitrogen base found in RNA instead of thymine; abbreviated U.