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When cells grow & develop by synthesizing (making) the proteins that give organisms their traits and characteristics from DNA & RNA | Protein Synthesis |
When DNA is replicated, so when the cell divides each new cell doesn’t end up with only half the required amount of DNA. | DNA Replication |
What is instructional genetic code for making the proteins that give living things their traits & characteristics. | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
What involves growth, development and division | Cell Life cycle |
Each strand of double helix DNA | Sugar Phosphate Backbones |
1.Homeostasis 2.Cells 3.Energy Metabolism 4.DNA & Heredity 5.Growth & Development 6.Reproduction 7.Environmental Response 8.Evolution | The Characteristics of Life |
Traits are expressed by ________ | Proteins |
Ribosomes are made and located on the ________ organelle and in the cytoplasm of the cell; site of protein synthesis | Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum |
What does transcription do | DNA to RNA |
What does translation do | RNA to Protein |
Both the Rough & Smooth ER are located ________ | Next to the nucleus |
Cell grows & develops by synthesizing (making) the proteins that give organisms their traits and characteristics from DNA & RNA | Protein Synthesis |
1st type of RNA | MRNA |
2nd type of RNA | RRNA |
3rd Type of RNA | TRNA |
In the cell’s nucleus, an enzyme unzips double helix DNA | 1st step of DNA replication |
Two new sets of DNA are produced. Each set consists of an original template strand and a new complementary strand. | 3rd step of DNA replication |
While still in the nucleus, the two new sets of DNA begin to condense into Chromatin and eventually into separate structures called Chromosomes | 4th step of DNA replication |
What can duplication mutation cause | Down Syndrome |
What is Translocation Mutation | Change in two chromosomes |
What can insertion mutation cause | Huntingtons |
Cell grows & develops by synthesizing (making) the proteins that give organisms their traits and characteristics from DNA & RNA | Protein Synthesis |
DNA is replicated, so when the cell divides each new cell doesn’t end up with only half the required amount of DNA | DNA Replication |
Two nucleic acids | DNA and RNA |