Chapter 3 The Biological Basis of Life

 

Key Terms

 

Amino acids

p. 43

Mitochondrial DNA

p. 39

Autosomes

p. 48

Mitosis

p. 49

Centromere

p. 47

Molecules

p. 39

Chromosomes

p. 47

Nondisjunction

p. 50

Clone

p. 53

Nucleotides

p. 40

Codons

p. 44

Nucleus

p. 39

Complementary

p. 41

Organelles

p. 39

Cytoplasm

p. 39

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

p. 52

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

p. 39

Protein synthesis

p. 42

Enzymes

p. 41

Proteins

p. 42

Gametes

p. 40

Recombination

p. 50

Gene

p. 44

Recombinant DNA

p. 53

Genome

p. 53

Replicate

p. 41

Hemoglobin

p. 42

Ribonucleic acid (RNA)

p. 39

Homologous

p. 53

Ribosomes

p. 39

Hormones

p. 42

Sex chromosomes

p. 48

Human genome project

p. 53

Somatic cells

p. 40

Meiosis

p. 50

Transfer RNA (tRNA)

P 44

Messenger RNA (mRNA)

p. 44

Zygote

p. 40

Mitochondria (Mitochondrion)

p. 39

 

 

 

Suggested Internet Exercises

 

@     Explore the official Human Genome Project suite of web site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/

@     Take an online visit to “The Human Cloning Foundation” and explore its content http://www.humancloning.org/

@     Watson and Crick’s original 1953 article, A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, can be found at http://biocrs.biomed.brown.edu/Books/Chapters/Ch%208/CH-Paper.html.