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These are the four chemical bases that make up the letters of the genetic code in DNA.
Difficulty: Easy- Alanine, Glycine, Lysine, Proline
- Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine
- Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta
- Arginine, Tryptophan, Glutamine, Cysteine
This scientist is known as the father of genetics for his work with pea plants.
Difficulty: Medium- Charles Darwin
- Louis Pasteur
- James Watson
- Gregor Mendel
This enzyme relieves torsional stress in DNA by cutting and rejoining the backbone during replication and transcription.
Difficulty: Hard- Topoisomerase
- Helicase
- Gyrase
- Ligase
This term describes a section of DNA that codes for a specific trait or protein.
Difficulty: Easy- Chromosome
- Cell
- Gene
- Nucleus
This type of cell division produces sex cells (sperm and egg) with half the normal chromosome number.
Difficulty: Medium- Mitosis
- Binary fission
- Meiosis
- Cytokinesis
This DNA repair mechanism fixes small, non-helix-distorting base modifications by removing and replacing single damaged bases.
Difficulty: Hard- Nucleotide excision repair
- Base excision repair
- Mismatch repair
- Homologous recombination
These thread-like structures in the cell nucleus contain tightly packed DNA.
Difficulty: Easy- Chromosomes
- Ribosomes
- Mitochondria
- Vacuoles
This type of cell division produces two identical daughter cells with the same chromosome number as the parent.
Difficulty: Medium- Mitosis
- Meiosis
- Binary fission
- Budding
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