DNA Basics

Which of these is controlled by your DNA?

• Color of your eyes
• What you ate yesterday
• Tattoos
• How many bonds carbon wants

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DNA, in eukaryotes, is found within the...

• Nucleus
• Golgi apparatus
• Cytosol
• Outside the plasma membrane

Before new cells are produced, what process needs to happen?

• Transcription
• Translation
• DNA Replication
• Protein synthesis

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Why is DNA important?

• it is very small and very complicated
• it's in everything
• it serves as the blueprint for traits of all living things
• because we eat it every day for energy

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The passing of DNA from parents to offspring

• Generation
• Heredity
• Inheritance
• Traits

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Segments of DNA are called _______________________

• Genes
• Nuclei
• genotypes
• Chromosomes

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A unit of genetic material that determines a trait

• Carrier
• DNA
• chromosome
• Gene

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What are small stretches of DNA that code for traits

• Nucleus
• Chromosomes
• Gene
• Centromeres

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Where is all the genetic information in a cell?

• Nucleus
• Nucleotides
• Chromosomes
• Cytoplasm

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What does DNA stand for?

• Deoxyribonucleic Acid
• Deoxyribose Enzymes
• Deoxyribose Messenger 
• Retro deoxyribose Acis

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