DNA

Question 1

What does DNA stand for?

Answer 1

Deoxyribonucleic acid

Question 2

What is the shape of DNA?

Answer 2

Double helix/twisted ladder

Question 3

What bond holds the bases together?

Answer 3

Hydrogen bond

Question 4

What are the 4 bases in DNA?

Answer 4

Adenine, Guanine, Thymine, Cytosine

Question 5

What holds the sister chromatids together?

Answer 5

Centromere

Question 6

What does a histone do?

Answer 6

It’s a piece of protein that DNA wraps around to help with the supercooling into chromosomes.

Question 7

What is a group of 8 histones?

Answer 7

Nucleosome

Question 8

M phase

Answer 8

Mitosis: PMAT

Question 9

Cytokinesis

Answer 9

Cytoplasmic pinching: only in animal cells

Question 10

2 parts of the cell cycle

Answer 10

Interphase & mitosis

Question 11

What happens to a plant cell after telophase?

Answer 11

It builds a cell plate or cell wall

Question 12

G1

Answer 12

1st stage of interphase. The cell grows & organelles are replicated.

Question 13

S

Answer 13

DNA is synthesized/replicated

Question 14

G2

Answer 14

Checking

Question 15

Centriole

Answer 15

Anchors the spindle fibers so they can pull apart the chromosomes

Question 16

Chromatin

Answer 16

Long stringy form of DNA

Question 17

Purines

Answer 17

AG

Question 18

Pyrimidines

Answer 18

CT