DNA/RNA Vocab

Question 1

Chromosomes

Answer 1

A threadlike structure within a cell’s nucleus that contains DNA that is passed from one generation to the next.

Question 2

Double helix

Answer 2

Twisted ladder structure of DNA

Question 3

Nitrogen bases

Answer 3

Molecules that contain nitrogen and other elements that make up the middle section of the DNA

Question 4

Adenine

Answer 4

a compound that is one of the four constituent bases that make up the rungs of DNA. It is abreviated as A

Question 5

Thymine

Answer 5

a compound that is one of the four constituent bases that make up the rungs of DNA. It is abriviated as T

Question 6

Guanine

Answer 6

is one of the four nitrogen bases that make up the rungs of DNA and is abbreviated as G.

Question 7

Cytosine

Answer 7

a compound found in living tissue as a constituent base of nucleic acids that is abbreviated as C.

Question 8

Gene

Answer 8

a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.

Question 9

DNA

Answer 9

Deoxyribonucleic acid; the genetic material that carries information about an organism and is passed from parent to offspring.

Question 10

RNA

Answer 10

It is a messenger carrying instructions from DNA inside the nucleus to the cytoplasm.

Question 11

Uracil

Answer 11

a nitrogen base found in RNA and it is abbreviated U.

Question 16

DNA replication

Answer 16

Before a cell divides, the process in which DNA copies itself.