SCIENCE 10 FINALS

Is the process by which traits or characteristics are passed on from parents to offspring.

Is the scientific study of heredity and variation of inherited traits.

A Moravian scientist and Augustinian monk, examine the physical characteristics of the pea plant and pondered how these characteristics are passed on from parents to offspring.

A Swiss physiological chemist obtain a patient bandage filled with pus from a local surgical clinic. He was the first scientist to isolate DNA from the cell nucleus. His goal was to filter the leukocytes (white blood cell) from the pus and extract and identify the protein components.

Is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

A complex, large molecules that are within the nucleus of a cell, and contain genetic information that instructs how an organism develops and functions. Serves as the blueprint that instructs cells on how to build and maintain the body properly. IS KNOWN AS THE BUILDING BLOCK OF LIFE.

Twisted ladder-like structure of DNA that is composed of the nucleotides, molecules made from the combinations of three different molecules including a phosphate group, a 5 carbon sugar group called deoxyribose, and nitrogenous base pair.

Are monomers that makes up a DNA polymers. Are the building black of DNA. Are distinguished by the type of nucleobase it contain. Are made up of deoxyribose sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base.

Is a nitrogen-containing molecules that has a similar chemical structure as of a base.

Consist of one phosphorus atom covalently bonded with four oxygen atoms.