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DNA
Replication, parts, functions, etc.
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Biology
10th Grade
02/04/2007

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Term
DNA stands for what?
Definition
Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid
Term
What are the monemers of DNA?
Definition
nucleotides
Term
What are nucleotides made of?
Definition
Phosphate, Sugar, Nitrogenous Base
Term
What are the five maine Nitrogenous Bases?
Definition
Adeine, Thymine, Guanime, Cytosine, and Uracil.
Term
What are teh Purines?
Definition
Adine and Guanine
Term
What are the pyramidines?
Definition
Thymine, Cytosine, and Uracil
Term
How do Nitrogenous Bases connect?
Definition
The Prosphate of the first connects to the sugar of the second.
Term
What does a strand of DNA look like, chemically?
Definition
NB-S-P-HB-P-S-NB S: Sugar
NB-S-P-HB-P-S-NB P: Phosphate
NB-S-P-HB-P-S-NB HB: Hydrogen Bond
NB-S-P-HB-P-S-NB NB: Nitrogenous Base
NB-S-P-HB-P-S-NB
Term
How do side by side Nitrogenous Bases connect?
Definition
Hydrogen Bonds
Term
A _____ Nitrogeonous Base must always connect with a _____ Nitrogeonous Base.
Definition
Purine...Pyrimiden
Pyrimiden...Purine
Term
_____ Nitrogeonous Base bonds with _____ Nitrogeonous Base, and _____ Nitrogeonous Base bonds with _____ Nitrogeonous Base.
Definition
Thymine with Adenine
Cytosine with Guamine
Term
What are the three types of bonds, from strongest to weakest?
Definition
Covalent Bonds
Ionic Bonds
Hydrogen Bonds
Term
Nitrogeonous Bases attach directly to what?
Definition
Sugar
Term
If you look at a bar of Sugar and Phosphates in DNA, what does it look like?
Definition
SPSPSPSPSPSPS...
Term
Which are longer, Purrines or Pyrimadens?
Definition
Purrines
Term
What are the first three things that DNA does when it is Replicating?
Definition
Unwraps from it's protein beads
Untwists
Unzips it's nitrogeonous base pairs
Term
What happens after the Nitrogeonous Bases are seperated in Replication?
Definition
A new appropriate base is reattached.
Term
How fast do Nitrogeonous Bases reattach during replication?
Definition
60 Bases/Second
Term
If you envision your Nucleus as a library of cookbooks, what are the cookbooks, recipies, and what do the recipies make?
Definition
The cookbooks are the chromasones, the genes are like the recipies, and the recipies make proteins.
Term
What determine your traits?
Definition
Enzymic and structural proteins.
Term
What are nucleotides made of?
Definition
A Nitrogeonous Base, a sugar, and a phosphate.
Term
What is a gene?
Definition
A gene is a segment of DNA that gives instructions to make a protein.
Term
DNA is not made of _____.
Definition
Protein
Term
What does mRNA stand for?
Definition
Messanger Ribose Nucleic Acid
Term
How is mRNA made?
Definition
By matching complimentory bases to the sense strand of DNA.
Term
What is the sense strand of DNA?
Definition
The original strand of DNA from before the original molecule seperated.
Term
What gets replaced in the mRNA, and what is it replaced by?
Definition
Thymine gets replaced by Uracil.
Term
What is the sugar in mRNA called?
Definition
Ribos.
Term
What is the creation of mRNA from DNA called?
Definition
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