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A normal sequence of DNA bases in a single human skin cell is CATGGC. If this sequence replicates in this cell and becomes GATGGC, this alteration will most likely be passed to

• every cell that develops from it
• all human body cells
• offspring of the human
• all skin cells of this person

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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 instructions for the traits of an organism are coded in the arrangement of

• (1) glucose units in carbohydrate molecules 
• (2) bases in DNA in the nucleus
•  (3) fat molecules in the cell membrane 
• (4) energy rich molecules in starch molecules

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How do the proteins determine traits in organisms?

• They give instructions to the genes
• It depends on how they connect with other proteins
• The trait depends on what environment the organism lives in. 
• The organism inherits its genes through sexual reproduction.

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Where is genetic information passed from parent to offspring contained?

• chromosomes

• cytoplasm

• lysosomes

• Ribosomes

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Body Cell mutations can contribute to...

• Cancer

• Parkinson's Disease

• Bronchitis

• Heart Failure

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Factors that control traits are

• purebreds

• genes

• recessives

• parents

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A disease in which red blood cells are mis-shaped and clog capillaries.

• leukemia

• heart disease

• sickle-cell anemia

• hemophilia

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An uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body is ...

• cancer

• cell division

• cell cycle

• mitosis

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What is a mutation?

• It's when an organism adapts to its environment

• It's when the offspring of two parents is different from each parent

• It's when the genes mix to create a new combination

• It's when the DNA sequence changes due to a mistake when it divides during mitosis or meiosis

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