DNA Flashcards
An example of a disease caused by substitution
Sickle cell Amenia
Changes in the number, type, or order of bases in DNA
Mutations
Most common type of mutation
Substitution
The subunits of DNA
Nucleotide
What are nucleotides made of
Sugar, base, and phosphate
Which letters go together
A and T Plus G and C
What does adenine pair with when RNAs present
Uracil
Physical or chemical agents in mutations
Mutagen
What does DNA stand for
Deoxyribonucleic acid
If a mutation is going to be passed on to the next generation where does that have to occur
The sex cells
Who found out that bases are paired in the 1950s
Chagraff
Which to scientist made a model out of DNA
Watson and crick
Who was the first scientist to see DNA
Franklin
Bases are blank to each other
Complementary
When are copies made
Every time a cell divides
What helps DNA replicate
Proteins
Where does DNA split to prepare for a replication
Down the middle
What do three bases form
Amino acids
What is a chain of amino acids
Proteins
What process did Franklin see DNA with
X-ray diffraction
What is the factory in a cell that makes proteins
Ribosome
What is the amino acid that looks for other amino acids floating around the cell
TRNA
DNA must first blank before can replicate
Unwind