L6-dna modules

• what does dna stand for?


  Deoxyribonucleic acid
• what does polymer mean?

  Large molecule made up of repeating subunits eg dna protein,starch
• what is monomer?


  A monomer is a molecule that can join together with other monomers to form a polymer eg nucleotides,amino acid and glucose.
• what is chargaffs law?

  Base pairing rule
• xy=male, xy=female, XX=female, XX=male
• 23rd pair of chromosomes is the sex chromosomes
• what is gene?


  a section of dna giving instructions for a cellabout how to make one with protein
• what is chromosone?


  long thin threadlike structures in the nuclues of a cell mad from a molecule of dna
• What is nuclues?


  the part of a eukaryotic cell that contains genes and controls activity of cell.
• what is dna?


  a biological polymer made from nucleoide monomers,the sequence contains all genetic materialof an organism.