1. Biology
JEOPARDY
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2. Scientists Multiple Choice Transcription & Translation
DNA
Genes & Chromosomes
Scientists Multiple Choice
DNA Replication
Transcription & Translation
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3. How many strands is DNA?
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4. 2
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5. What are the four nitrogen bases that make up DNA?
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6. Adenine, Guanine, Cytocine & Thymine
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7. What type of bond holds the nitrogen bases together?
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8. Hydrogen
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9. Who earned the Nobel Prize for determining the double helix structure of DNA?
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10. Watson & Crick
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11. How many bases make up the human genome?
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12. Three billion
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13. What is a gene?
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14. Section of DNA that codes for a trait
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15. Where do you find genes?
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16. On chromosomes
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17. How many chromosomes do humans have?
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18. 23 Pairs
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19. How many genes do humans have?
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20. Approximately
20,000 – 30,000
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21. Genes contain instructions to make which macromolecule?
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22. Proteins
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23. Which scientist was nicknamed “Father of Genetics?
Mendel or Griffith
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24. Mendel
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25. Which scientist took X-ray pictures of DNA?
Franklin or Avery
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26. Franklin
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27. Which scientist injected mice with pneumonia?
Chargaff or Griffith
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28. Griffith
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29. Which scientist determined rules for base pairing?
Chargaff or Levene
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30. Chargaff
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31. Which scientist(s) determined that genetic material is composed of DNA and NOT protein?
Hershey & Chase or
Avery
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32. Avery
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33. What are the three parts of a nucleotide?
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34. Sugar, Phosphate and Base
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35. The sides of the DNA molecule are made up of what two parts?
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36. Sugar (Deoxyribose) and Phosphate
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37. Why does DNA need to be replicated?
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38. We make more cells and need DNA for those cells
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39. What enzyme is responsible for adding DNA nucleotides to the unwound DNA chain?
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40. DNA Polymerase
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41. What enzyme breaks the hydrogen bonds between the bases in this process?
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42. Helicase
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43. What is the goal of transcription?
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44. To copy DNA – make mRNA
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45. Why must mRNA be made during transcription?
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46. DNA cannot leave the nucleus – protect the genetic code
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47. What is the goal of translation?
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48. To make proteins – putting amino acids together
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49. Define codon and anticodon
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50. Anticodon: 3 letter code on tRNA molecule
Codon: 3 letter code on mRNA molecule
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51. Use the mRNA codon table to determine the amino acids for the following set of bases:
AUG UCU UAA
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52. Methonine / Start Codon
Serine
Stop Codon
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