DNA

Question 0

What does DNA stand for?

Answer 0

Deoxyribonucleic acid

Question 1

DNA

Answer 1

Stores genetic information

Question 2

What is the function of histones?

Answer 2

Proteins that hold DNA coils together

Question 3

Nucleosome

Answer 3

DNA wrapped around proteins

Question 4

What are the components of a DNA nucleotide?

Answer 4

Nitrogen-rich bases, deoxyribose sugars, and phosphates

Question 5

What are the DNA nitrogen-rich basis?

Answer 5

Adenine (A), Guanine (g), Cytosine (C), and Thymine

Question 6

What are the nitrogen-rich bases comprised of?

Answer 6

Carbon (C), Hydrogen (H), Nitrogen (N), Oxygen (O)

Question 7

Purines

Answer 7

A and G, composed of two rings

Question 8

Pyrimidines

Answer 8

C and T, composed of one ring

Question 9

Deoxyribose

Answer 9

sugar that has lost one oxygen atom

Question 10

How do nucleotides make a connection?

Answer 10

by joining phosphates to sugar

Question 11

Polynucleotide

Answer 11

A long strand of nucleotides put together

Question 12

Phosphodiester bond

Answer 12

two sugars linked together by a phosphate in between

Question 13

What is the double helix made up of?

Answer 13

two polynucleotide strands linked together

Question 14

What type of bonds form between base pairs of DNA

Answer 14

Hydrogen bonds

Question 15

What is Chargaff’s rule?

Answer 15

in every DNA molecule, the amount of one base is equal to the amount of its complementary base

Question 16

Genome

Answer 16

full set of genetic information

Question 17

Mitochondrial DNA

Answer 17

Circular, control cellular metabolism