Genomics on the Web:
Interactive Approach to Learn About Genetics
By April Cleveland and Joyce Hoyt
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3. GFP
4. A POLYPEPTIDE CHAIN OF AMINO ACIDS LINKED TOGETHER BY PEPTIDE BONDS
5. A SEQUENCE OF THREE NUCLEOTIDES IN mRNA THAT SPECIFIES ONE AMINO ACID
9. PROCESS BY WHICH HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOMES INTERTWINE AND EXCHANGE PIECES
13. NUMBER OF LINKAGE GROUPS (CHROMOSOMES) THE FRUIT FLY ACCORDING TO MORGAN
14. THE PROCESS WHICH CREATES MRNA FROM DNA
17. THE DNA NUCLEOTIDE ABBREVIATED AS “T”
20. PRIMARY LOCATION OF DNA IN THE CELL
21. USED TO JOIN DNA WHICH HAS “STICKY ENDS”
22. A COMPLEMENTARY STRAND OF DNA MADE FROM MRNA
25. USED TO PREDICT THE OFFSPRING OF A MATING OF PARENTS
27. INFORMATION FLOWS FROM DNA TO PROTEIN
30. THE DNA NUCLEOTIDE ABBREVIATED AS “C”
32. NONCODING DNA REGIONS WHICH ARE NOT USED TO MAKE PROTEIN
34. BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME
35. REPAIRS DNA
36. THE DIRECTION OF THE TWO STRANDS OF DNA
39. RNA IS ______, WHEREAS DNA IS DOUBLE STRANDED
40. THE DNA NUCLEOTIDE ABBREVIATED AS “A”
41. THE MESSAGE THAT CARRIES GENETIC INFORMATION FROM THE DNA IN THE NUCLEUS TO THE CYTOPLASM
42. DIGESTS TEMPLATE DNA INTO PIECES
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1. THE ENZYME THAT SYNTHESIZES DNA
2. THE WEAK BONDS WHICH ARE FORMED BETWEEN DNA NUCLEOTIDES
6. THE ONLY FOUR UNITS WHICH MAKE UP DNA
7. THE CODON WHICH SIGNALS THE START OF TRANSLATION
8. THE MOVEMENT OF DNA FROM ONE ORGANISM TO ANOTHER
10. ETS
11. DISCOVERED THE “CHAIN TERMINATION” METHOD OF DNA SEQUENCING
12. PUBLISHED THE FIRST GENETIC MAP
15. PRIMARY LOCATION OF RNA IN THE CELL
16. THE DNA NUCLEOTIDE ABBREVIATED AS “G”
18. READS THE mRNA AND BRINGS AMINO ACIDS TO RIBOSOMES FOR PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
19. NUCLEOTIDE BASE USED IN RNA THAT IS EQUIVALENT TO THYMINE IN DNA
23. APTEROUS SEPIA AND EYELESS ARE FORMS OF THESE
24. REPLICATION OF DNA STRANDS WHERE EACH ORIGINAL STRAND IS A TEMPLATE FOR A NEW COMPLEMENTARY STRAND
26. LINUS PAULING USED X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY TO DISCOVER THIS SHAPE WHICH IS FOUND IN MANY PROTEINS
28. THE SUBUNITS USED TO MAKE UP PROTEINS
29. SHORT TANDEM REPEAT
31. THE PROCESS BY WHICH AN mRNA SEQUENCE IS “READ” INTO AN AMINO ACID SEQUENCE (PROTEIN)
33. A PROTEIN MADE FROM TRANSFORMED BACTERIA FOR HUMAN USE
37. DISCOVERED THERE ARE ABOUT EQUAL AMOUNTS OF ADENINE AND THYMINE, AND ABOUT EQUAL AMOUNTS OF CYTOSINE AND GUANINE IN DNA
38. AN INDIVIDUAL HAVING THE APPEARANCE MOST COMMONLY FOUND IN NATURE
42. HAVING TWO MUTANT TRAITS
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