DNA - Production Of Protiens

Question 1

What structure is found inside the nucleus?

Answer 1

Chromosomes

Question 2

What are chromosome made of

Answer 2

DNA

Question 3

What shape is DNA

Answer 3

Double helix

Question 4

What is a section of DNA called?

Answer 4

A gene

Question 5

What do genes carry?

Answer 5

The instructions to make proteins

Question 6

Where do our genes come from?

Answer 6

Our parents
Mother - 50%
Father - 50%

Question 7

What are the 4 DNA bases?

Answer 7

Adenosine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine

Question 8

What are the DNA base pairs?

Answer 8

Cytosine and Guanine

Adenine and Thymine

Question 9

What are amino acids?

Answer 9

The building blocks of proteins

Question 10

What are amino acids used for?

Answer 10

To determine the protein made, determined from the order of 3 bases along a DNA strand

Question 11

What is messenger RNA (mRNA)?

Answer 11

A messenger molecule, which carries a complimentary copy of a DNA base sequence from the nucleus to the ribosome, to be made into amino acids, then proteins