DNA Introduction

What is DNA?

• Material that carries all of the information about how a living thing will look and function

• Only plants have DNA

• Material that carries all of the information of non-living things.

What is DNA short for?

• Deoxyribo Acid

• Nucleic Acid

• Deoxyribonucleic Acid

DNA helps make __________

• Proteins

• Mutations

• Sugar

The structure of DNA is like a ________

• Stairs

• Circle

• Ladder

What makes up the sides of the ladder?

• Sugars and Phosphate

• Genetic Code

• DNA

How many bases are there?

• 2

• 4

• 5

What is the order of the base pairs?

• Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine and Guanine

• Thymine, Cytosine, Adenine and Guanine

• Guanine, Thymine, Cytosine Adenine

The order of the bases forms a code that tells cells to make certain ________________

• Phosphate

• Proteins

• Sugars

What does the differences in proteins make?

• Living things

• Non-living things