Jeopardy Test Review Game DNA/RNA/Meiosis Jeopardy Test Review Game

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Who discovered that grasshoppers have sex cells with half the number of their body cells?

Walter Sutton

During this process four sex cells are formed during cell division that happens twice

Meiosis

The order of the nitrogen bases determines the ___________

Genetic Code

The order of the bases along a gene determines the order in which the ________ are put together to form a protein.

Amino Acids

This copies the coded message from DNA and carries it into the cytoplasm.

mRNA

This carries amino acids and adds them to the growing protein.

tRNA

Any change in a gene or chromosome

Mutation

If a mutation is _________ to an organism it means it reduces its chances for survival and reproduction.

Harmful

Where does protein synthesis take place?

Ribosomes

Which nitrogen base is not part of DNA?

Uracil

Watson and ______ developed our current model of DNA

Crick

During replication Adenine always pairs with

Thymine

During replication Cytosine always pairs with

Guanine

DNA is shaped like a

Double Helix

The sides of DNA are made of alternating bands of sugar and

Phosphate

Meiosis makes

Sex Cells

If a squirrel has 18 chromosomes in its sperm cells it will have________ in its body or somatic cells.

36

If a squirrel has 36chromososmes in its body cells, it will have ________ in its egg cells.

18

DNA was discovered in ______

1953

The more classification levels two organisms share, the more characteristics they have in common

true

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