Bio

Question 0

What is meiosis?

Answer 0

Meiosis results in identical haploid cells.

Question 1

What is mitosis?

Answer 1

Mitosis is the production production of two identical diploid cells.

Question 2

Define transformation

Answer 2

When you go from RNA to amino acids.

Question 3

Define bacteriophage

Answer 3

A virus that infects bacteria.

Question 4

Define nucleotides

Answer 4

Made up of 5 carbon sugar deoxyribose and a phosphate and a nitrogenous base. It makes up DNA.

Question 5

What is DNA

Answer 5

Adenine
Gaunine
Thymine

Question 6

RNA is made up of

Answer 6

Adenine
Uracil
Guanine
Cytosine

Question 7

Define base pairing.

Answer 7

Bonds between certain base pairs. A-T c-g

Question 8

Define chromatin

Answer 8

Eukaryotic chromosomes that contain both DNA and proteins tightly packed together. DNA coiled around proteins called histone.

Question 9

Define histone.

Answer 9

A protein

Question 10

Define replication

Answer 10

The creation and duplication if a complimentary DNA strand.

Question 11

What’s DNA polymerase

Answer 11

Principle enzyme involved in DNA replication that joins nucleotides to DNA molecules

Question 12

What is mRNA

Answer 12

Messenger RNA. From RNA to DNA

Question 13

What is rRNA

Answer 13

Ribosomal RNA makes up the ribosome.

Question 14

What is tRNA

Answer 14

Adapter molecule composed of RNA

Question 15

Define transcription.

Answer 15

The process of DNA to RNA with mRNA

Question 16

Define RNA polymerase

Answer 16

Binds to DNA and separates DNA strands and uses DNA strands as a template for RNA.

Question 17

Define promoters.

Answer 17

A region of DNA that initiated transcription of a particular point.

Question 18

Define introns

Answer 18

A segment of DNA or RNA that doesn’t code for proteins and interrupts the sequence of genes.