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Many cells in your body grow and divide every day by what process? |
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What structure in a cell's nucleus holds the heriditary information? |
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Term for the joining of an egg and sperm |
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The sections of DNA that contain instructions for producing specific proteins |
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What are male sex cells called? |
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What cell forms when an egg and sperm join? |
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The term for any permanent change in a gene or chromosome |
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The type of reproduction that produces a new organism; with identical chromosomes to those of the parent organism |
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An organism grows and functions by followin the information in this code |
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The term for female sex cells |
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Cells with pairs of chromosomes are this |
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Type of reproduction that requires the joining of two sex cells |
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This type of nucleic acid carries the information needed to make proteins |
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Cells that do not have pairs of chromosomes (sex cells) |
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DNA bases/strand:
T: G: A: T: C: |
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RNA bases/strand:
A: C: T: G: A: |
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What structiure contains the instructions for making specific protein? |
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What makes up the sides of the "ladder" of a DNA molecule? |
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deoxyribose sugar and phosphase |
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How is RNA differend from DNA? |
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single stranded vs. double helix uracil vs. thymine |
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What can cause mutations? |
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X ras, sunlight, and chemicals |
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