DNA Basics | Discovery of DNA | Not DNA | GMS Traditions | Challenge |
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What are A, T, C, and G (adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine)
The four different nucleotides
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What is the nucleus
The place in the cell where DNA was found by Friedrich Miescher
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What is ribose
The sugar in RNA
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What is 2!
The number of Intersession weeks we have in a school year
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What is a complimentary strand
The fancy name for the copied strand of RNA opposite the template strand of DNA
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What is deoxyribonucleic acid
The long name for DNA
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What is deoxy-
A prefix meaning "without/missing oxygen"
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What is uracil (U)
The RNA version of thymine
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What is Let It Go (Frozen)
The song we sing before Holiday Break
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What is hemoglobin (or an antibody, lactase, or many, many others)
The name or job of a specific protein
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What is a double helix
The shape of DNA
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What is that only a purine and pyrimidine fit the width of DNA OR the hydrogen bonds match up OR the percentages of A and T and percentages of C and G match up.
A reason why we know A pairs with T and C pairs with G
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What is UGCCAUG
The RNA transcription of the DNA sequence ACGGTAC
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What is In Summer (Frozen)
The song we sing before Summer Break
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What is a hydrogen bond
The name for the bond between a hydrogen molecule and oxygen molecule in opposite nucleotides, keeps DNA 'zipped'
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What are a sugar (deoxyribose), a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base
The three parts of a nucleotide
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Who is Rosalind Franklin
The woman that took the X-Ray Crystallography photo of DNA, called Photo 51
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What are the nucleus and the cytoplasm
Two places where RNA is found
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What is Mexico
The international place that 8th graders usually travel to each spring
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What is RNA polymerase
The name of the protein that "unzips" DNA in order to make mRNA
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What are purines and pyrimidines
The names for the larger and smaller types of nucleotides
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Who are James Watson and Francis Crick (Maurice Wilkins also got the Nobel Prize)
Nobel Prize winners who figured out the shape of DNA
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What are mRNA, tRNA, and ribosomes
Three parts of the protein synthesis process made of RNA
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Who are Laura, Holly, and Renee
Any staff member that has been at GMS since its founding year, 1998
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What is ATTGCCATT (DNA) and AUUGCCAUU (RNA)
The complimentary DNA strand to TAACGGTAA *and* the complimentary RNA strand
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