Unit 2: Genetics

Question 1

DNA

Answer 1

Deoxyribonucleic Acid

Question 2

RNA

Answer 2

Ribonucleic Acid

Question 3

Chromosomes in a human body

Answer 3

46

Question 4

Pairs of Chromosomes in a human body

Answer 4

23

Question 5

Who Discovered DNA?

Answer 5

Francis Circk
John Watson
Rosalind Franklin

Question 6

Specific Location Where genes are on DNA

Answer 6

Locus

Question 7

Complete Set of genes in an organism

Answer 7

Genome

Question 8

What does Thymine Bond with?

Answer 8

Adenine

Question 9

What does Cytosine bond with?

Answer 9

Guanine

Question 10

What bonds with Adenine in RNA?

Answer 10

Uracil

Question 11

Adenine and Guanine

Answer 11

Purines

Question 12

Cytosine and Thymine

Answer 12

Pyrimidines

Question 13

What are nucleotides attached by?

Answer 13

Phosphodiester bond

Question 14

What are nitrogenous bases and each side of DNA molecule attached by?

Answer 14

Hydrogen Bond

Question 15

DNA molecules coil to fit into cells with this protein Molecule

Answer 15

Histone

Question 16

Nucleosomes (8 histones) form what by coiling upon themselves?

Answer 16

Chromatin Fiber

Question 17

6 Nucleosomes

Answer 17

Solenoid

Question 18

Telomeres

Answer 18

Repeating sequence of DNA found at the end of chromosomes

Question 19

Aging Cell

Answer 19

Cell Senescence

Question 20

Hayflick Limit

Answer 20

The number of times cells can do Mitosis.

Question 21

Diffusion

Answer 21

Chemicals and substances moving from one cell to another. From high to low concentration

Question 22

Osmosis

Answer 22

Water that moves to a place of higher concentration of solute in the body and cells.

Question 23

How much of our genes have been sequenced

Answer 23

99%