Unit 7A Vocabulary

Nucleic acid that is the heredity material in living organisms

• Gene

• RNA

• DNA

• Mutagen

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The basic unit of heredity that consists of DNA

• Nucleotide

• Gene

• Heredity

• Mutagen

The basic building block of a nucleic acid consisting of a sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogen base

• Mutagen

• Nucleotide

• RNA

• DNA

A factor that can change in DNA

• Mutation

• rRNA

• Mutagen

• Heredity

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A change in the DNA sequence

• Mutation

• DNA

• Gene

• Mutagen

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A single-stranded nucleic acid that plays a major role in protein synthesis

• Gene

• mRNA

• RNA

• DNA

The process of passing traits from parents to offspring

• Heredity

• RNA

• Nucleotide

• rRNA

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Nucleic acid that carries genetic information from the DNA in the nucleus to the ribosomes in the cytoplasm

• Mutagen

• mRNA

• rRNA

• tRNA

The RNA component that makes up ribosomes

• RNA

• tRNA

• mRNA

• rRNA

Molecules that carry amino acids to ribosomes to form proteins

• rRNA

• RNA

• mRNA

• tRNA