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What are the building blocks of your tissues, organs, and organ systems? Hint |
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genes |
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atoms |
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cells |
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| 2) |
What new science, a blending of biology, math, and computer science, is helping to “wade through the flood of As, Ts, Cs and Gs”? Hint |
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bioinformatics |
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robotics |
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gene scanning |
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| 3) |
What are the smallest building blocks of life? Hint |
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genes |
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atoms |
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cells |
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| 4) |
What influences your genes? Hint |
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Your surroundings |
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Heredity |
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All of the above |
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| 5) |
What is an example of an inherited trait? Hint |
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Eye color |
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Personality |
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Not liking your vegetables |
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| 6) |
What are your genes made of? Hint |
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Amino Acids |
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Blood |
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DNA |
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| 7) |
What is it called when there is a change that happens during the copying of DNA? Hint |
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A single gene trait |
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An endoplasmic reticulum |
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A mutation |
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| 8) |
All creatures on earth use the same genetic code. What percentage of DNA do humans share? Hint |
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75% |
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99.9% |
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30% |
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| 9) |
How many pairs of chromosomes do you have? Hint |
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23 |
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35 |
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46 |
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| 10) |
The DNA double helix looks a twisted ladder and the ladder’s rungs are made out of chemicals called bases—A, T, G and C. What do these letters stand for? Hint |
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argon, thorium, gallium, and cerium |
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adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine |
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abronia, torenia, globba, and celastrus |
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