Section 3A (Life Science)

Match the following terms:

• bases

• Deoxyribonucleic acid is made of four main ___

• DNA

• Each section of DNA that codes for a unique protein is called a ____.

• gene

• stores information needed to make complex cellular organelles (all parts of the cell)

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Match the pairs of bases:

guanine + ​ ​ ​ (a)  

​ (b)   + ​ (c)  

• cytosine
• adenine
• thymine

which protein gets built depends on:

• which nucleotides are present

• what order the nucleotides are in.

• what presents are given to nucleotides (at Christmas)

• what genes a parent cell has

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

DNA models show that it looks like a ____

• gooey sphere

• ladder

• twisted ladder

• loose leaf paper

label the "ingredients" in DNA

a

b

c

base

phosphate

sugar

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Match the following terms that relate to DNA

• cytosine

• adenine

• sugar, phosphate, & base

• nucleotides

• thymine

• guanine

DNA

• is fairly complex

• is fairly simple

• is considered the "instructions for building the complex machinery of the cell"

• is bundled in a sort of "twisted ladder"

• 

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

The complexity of DNA

• tends to support the idea of an intelligent designer

• tends to support the idea of random chance

• is purple

There are ___ of links/codes in DNA

• dozens

• hundreds

• millions

• tritillitonions

Adenine, Guanine, Thymine, & Cytosine are:

• bases

• sugars

• DNA