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DNA

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    review for the first part of the presentation
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  • What is DNA (how can we define it?)
    an instruction manual for how to build life / a molecular blueprint for a living thing
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  • Where is DNA found in a cell?
    In the NUCLEUS of every eukaryotic cell.
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  • What does DNA stand for?
    Deoxyribonucleic Acid
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  • What are NUCLEOTIDES?
    Information stored in DNA as a code made up of four types of molecules
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  • What three things are nucleotides composed of?
    a phosphate group, a sugar and a nitrogen base.
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  • What are the types of bases in a nucleotide?
    adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine.
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  • What determines the information to build and maintain an organism?
    the order of the bases in nucleotides
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  • What is the structure of DNA filaments called?
    a double helix structure
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  • Nucleotides assemble in chains through a ____ backbone.
    sugar-phosphate
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  • The base ADENINE can only pair with...
    thymine
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  • The base CYTOSINE can only pair with...
    guanine
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  • An important property of DNA is that it can ___
    replicate
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  • DNA strands fold into paired packages called ...
    chromosomes
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  • How many PAIRS of chromosomes do humans have?
    23
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  • Which chromosomes do males have in there cells? (XX or XY)
    XY
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  • What is Down's syndrom (trisomy 21) caused by?
    An extra chromosome (in the 21st set)
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