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Science Jeopardy
Gregor
Mendel
Punnett
Square
Symbols in
Genetics
DNA
Connection
Protein
Synthesis
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Final Jeopardy
FINAL JEOPARDY
• QUESTION:
If the CODON for an Amino acid is AAG
What ANTICODON would it match up with?
• ANSWER:
UUC
Remember in RNA and Protein Synthesis!!!
Uracil (U) matches with Adenine (A)
Cytosine (C) matches with Guanine (G)
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A-100
• QUESTION:
How many different traits did Gregor Mendel study in peas?
• ANSWER:
Seven
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A-200
• QUESTION:
What are Traits?
• ANSWER:
Different physical characteristics
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A-300
• QUESTION:
What is the passing of traits
from parents to offspring?
• ANSWER:
Heredity
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A-400
• QUESTION:
What is the different form of a gene?
• ANSWER:
Allele
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A-500
• QUESTION:
Which Allele is masked by the
Dominant Allele?
• ANSWER:
Recessive Allele
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B-100
• QUESTION:
What is the likelihood a particular event will happen called?
• ANSWER:
Probability
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B-200
• QUESTION:
What is used by Geneticists to show all possible outcomes of a
genetic cross?
• ANSWER:
Punnett Square
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B-300
• QUESTION:
What is the genetic makeup of an organism called?
• ANSWER:
Genotype
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B-400
• QUESTION:
What are the visible physical
traits called?
• ANSWER:
Phenotype
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B-500
• QUESTION:
When two different alleles for a trait are present it is called:
• ANSWER:
Heterozygous or Hybrid
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C-100
• QUESTION:
What do scientists use to represent alleles?
• ANSWER:
Lower case and Upper case letters
called symbols
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C-200
• QUESTION:
What letter is used to show a dominant
• ANSWER:
Any Upper case letter T B M
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trait or allele?
C-300
• QUESTION:
How would you write a heterozygous
trait?
• ANSWER:
One dominant/Upper case (T) and one recessive/lower (t) case
letters
Tt Mm Pp
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C-400
• QUESTION:
What letters or symbols would you use for a recessive trait?
• ANSWER:
Always 2 lower case letters
tt mm bb
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C-500
• QUESTION:
True or False
Homozygous and Purebred are the
same thing
• ANSWER:
True TT tt NN nn
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D-100
• QUESTION:
What are the building blocks of protein?
• ANSWER:
Amino Acids or AA
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D-200
• QUESTION:
What is the production of proteins as coded for by DNA called?
• ANSWER:
Protein Synthesis
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D-300
• QUESTION:
Who is the genetic “messenger” that helps DNA produce
proteins?
• ANSWER:
RNA or Ribonucleic Acid
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D-400
• QUESTION:
Which amino acids are not produced in our body?
• ANSWER:
Essential amino acids
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D-500
• QUESTION:
Where in the cell does protein synthesis
take place?
• ANSWER:
Ribosomes
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E-100
• QUESTION:
Which nitrogen base in RNA pairs up
with Adenine instead of Thymine?
• ANSWER:
Uracil
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E-200
• QUESTION:
What is a CODON
• ANSWER:
A 3 base combination from DNA that is a specific code for an
amino acid
AAG GCA
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E-300
•
QUESTION:
Which RNA carries the message or CODON for proteins from
nucleus to the ribosomes?
•
ANSWER:
Messenger RNA or mRNA
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E-400
• QUESTION:
What is an ANTICODON?
• ANSWER:
A 3 letter or base combination for Amino acid that matches-up
with a codon
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E-500
• QUESTION:
What is the function of transfer RNA
or tRNA?
• ANSWER:
Carries specific Amino Acids (ANTICODON) to Ribosomes to
make proteins
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