1. Science Jeopardy
DNA
Structure
History of
DNA
Cell Cycle
Meiosis
Miscellaneous
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2. Double Science Jeopardy
F.J.
RNA
Cell Cycle…
Again
More
Meiosis
Mutations
Potpourri
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3. The Twisted structure of DNA.
100
Answer

4. What is the double helix?
100

5. The nucleotide is made of these three parts. 200
Answer

6. What are the nitrogen base, the sugar, and the phosphate?
200

7. up during cell reproduction.
The name for DNA coiled
up during cell reproduction.
300
Answer

8. What is a chromosome?
300

9. codes for a specific trait.
A section of DNA that
codes for a specific trait.
400
Answer

10. What is a gene?
400

11. This was originally believed to contain genetic information.
100
Answer

12. What is protein?
100

13. They discovered that DNA was the genetic material.
200
Answer

14. Who were Hershey and Chase?
200

15. Watson and Crick did this.
300
Answer

16. What is discover the double helix?
300

17. A mistake in the replication
of DNA is called this.
400
Answer

18. What is a mutation?
400

19. stages of the cell cycle.
These are the 5
stages of the cell cycle.
100
Answer

20. What are, interphase, prophase,
metaphase, anaphase,
and telophase?
100

21. This phase is when cleavage occurs, or a cell plate forms.
200
Answer

22. What is telophase?
200

23. The following phase.
300
Answer

24. What is metaphase?
300

25. This phase is the shortest
in the cell cycle.
400
Answer

26. What is anaphase?
400

27. Meiosis splits these types of cells.
100
Answer

28. What are gametes (sex cells)?
100

29. from the homologous pair.
The type of cell that
has both chromosomes
from the homologous pair.
200
Answer

30. What is a diploid cell?
200

31. The three useless cells made in egg cell meiosis.
300
Answer

32. What are polar bodies?
300

33. The part of meiosis that splits
up the homologous pair.
400
Answer

34. What is meiosis I?
400

35. The pairs of DNA nucleotides,
as they match up.
100
Answer

36. What are A-T, C-G?
100

37. Transcription takes place here.
200
Answer

38. Where is the nucleus?
200

39. What “DNA” stands for.
300
Answer

40. What is Deoxyribonucleic Acids?
300

41. A point mutation that causes no problems. 400
Answer

42. What is a silent mutation?
400

43. 3 Differences between DNA and RNA 200
Answer

44. What are;
1. different sugars,
2. A-T, A-U
3. Nucleus vs Nucleus + Cytoplasm
4. DNA much larger
5. Single strand vs double helix
200

45. What RNA stand for.
400
Answer

46. What is ribonucleic acid?
400

47. This process, in the cytoplasm, makes proteins from RNA
600
Answer

48. What is Translation?
600

49. This enzyme helps transcription
occur in the nucleus.
800
Answer

50. What is RNA polymerase?
800

51. In this phase, the chromosomes become visible as the nuclear
membrane breaks down
200
Answer

52. What is prophase?
200

53. is reproduced in mitosis.
The type of cell that
is reproduced in mitosis.
400
Answer

54. What are somatic (body) cells?
400

55. The part shown here.
600
Answer

56. different in an animal cell?
What is the cell plate.
600
Bonus: What would be
different in an animal cell?

57. The following steps, in order.
800 A D C B E
Answer

58. What is B,A,D,E,C?
800

59. The type of cell with only one copy of the homologous pair.
(1/2 the chromosomes)
200
Answer

60. What is a haploid cell?
200

61. Exact copies of the same each other at a center point.
DNA attached to
each other at a center point.
400
Answer

62. What are sister chromatids?
400

63. Two chromosomes in a diploid cell that code for the same traits.
600
Answer

64. What is a homologous pair?
600

65. The type, and number, of cells you get as a result of meiosis I.
800
Answer

66. What are 2 haploid cells?
800

67. An addition or subtraction of a nucleotide that causes the
remaining nucleotides to
shift up or down.
200
Answer

68. What is a frameshift mutation?
200

69. When the homologous pairs split wrong, causing 3 of the same
chromosome in a developing embryo.
400
Answer

70. What is the chromosomal
abnormality Trisomy?
400
Bonus 100:
Give an example

71. The three nucleotides that code for a specific amino acid when
transcribed and translated.
600
Answer

72. What are codons?
600

73. Diseases that are caused by more
than one mutation on
more than one gene.
800
Answer

74. What are multifactoral diseases.
800

75. The base pair that is different
between DNA and RNA.
200
Answer

76. What is Thymine vs Uracil
200

77. The step of meiosis that splits sister chromatids.
400
Answer

78. What is meiosis II?
400

79. The type of cells that are made from mitosis. (not body cells) 600
Answer

80. What is a diploid cell?
600

81. The sequence of amino acids that tells the RNA polymerase
where to start transcribing.
800
Answer

82. What is a promoter?
800

83. FINAL JEOPARDY Meiosis
Two differences between meiosis I and meiosis II
Answer

84. Diploid to haploid vs Haploid to haploid
What are:
Diploid to haploid vs Haploid to haploid
Separating homologous pairs vs
Separating sister chromatids.