Module #7 Review Questions Flashcards
In determining your traits, what sets your range of possible characteristics?
DNA
DNA is sometimes called what?
Genetic tendency
There are three factors that determine the characteristic of a person, name all three.
- Genetic factors
- Environmental factors
- Spiritual factors
Of the three factors that determine the characteristics of a person which are laid down first?
Genetic factors
The information in an organism’s DNA is split up into little groups known as what?
Genes
What does a cell produce that the cell is dependant on to complete its task?
Proteins
Like DNA, the nucleotides of what join together in long strands?
RNA
What structural form does DNA take on that RNA does not?
Double helix
Like DNA, RNA has four nucleotides, name them.
- Adenine
- Cytosine
- Guanine
- Uracil
In RNA adenine is linked with what (and vica-versa)?
Uracil
In RNA cytosine is linked to what ( and vica-versa)?
Guanine
Unlike DNA, the sugar that makes up the foundation of the nucleotides in RNA is what?
Ribose
What is the RNA that takes the nucleus and takes it to the ribosome?
Messenger RNA
Protein synthesis in the cell can be split into what two groups?
Transcription and translation
The process of the RNA making a “negative image” of the cell’s DNA is called what?
Transcription