DNA

Question 1

What instructions does the NUCLUES cell contain? (4)

Answer 1

What it will do, how it will function, when it will reproduce/grow, and when it will die

Question 2

What carries the master set of instructions for cell function

Answer 2

The DNA

Question 3

what are the sides of DNA made up of?

Answer 3

Sugar and Phosphates

Question 4

DNA are made up of which bases? (4)

Answer 4

Adenine Cystosine Guanine Thymine

Question 5

What is Adenine and Guanine structures known as?

Answer 5

Purines

Question 6

Cystosine and thymine are know as?

Answer 6

PYRAMIDINES

Question 7

a singular sugar phosphate base unit is called ?

Answer 7

Nucleotide

Question 8

What pairs with Adenine?

Answer 8

Thymine

Question 9

What pairs with Cytosine?

Answer 9

Guanine

Question 10

Name 4 DNA functions

Answer 10

instructions for all cell functions, determines the hereditary traits, evolves, self replication

Question 11

The arrangement of bases in DNA directs all cell activity, what do the bases carry then?

Answer 11

carries message, a CODE

Question 12

what is chromatin made up of?

Answer 12

DNA and proteins / histones

Question 13

when cells reproduce, the entire chromatin coils up and makes an X shaped structure, called what?

Answer 13

chromosome

Question 14

how many chromosome pairs does a human have?

Answer 14

46 (23 pairs)

Question 15

How many genes does a chromosome carry?

Answer 15

1000

Question 16

Where are genes found?

Answer 16

on chromosomes

Question 17

What is the smallest segment of DNA found at specific places on a chromosome that code for protein?

Answer 17

GENE

Question 18

what is based on the arrangement of how the protein will be produced?

Answer 18

bases