Genetics and DNA Decoded

What this quiz asks

• What does the abbreviation DNA stand for?
• Gregor Mendel worked out the basic rules of heredity by breeding which plants?
• Identical twins develop from a single fertilised egg that splits in two.
• In 1996 this animal became the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. What was her name?
• Which pair of sex chromosomes does a typical human male carry?
• What name is given to the different versions of the same gene?
• Can two brown-eyed parents have a child with blue eyes?
• Down syndrome is caused by an extra copy of which chromosome?
• Whose lab produced Photo 51, the X-ray image that was key evidence for DNA's double helix?
• Select ALL of these that are parts of a single DNA nucleotide.
• Mendel's discoveries about heredity made him famous in the scientific world during his lifetime.
• A codon, the genetic 'word' for one amino acid, is made of how many bases?
• Which base does RNA use in place of the thymine found in DNA?
• Roughly how many protein-coding genes are there in the human genome?
• What is the process called in which a cell copies a gene's DNA into messenger RNA?
• One copy of the human genome is roughly how many base pairs long?
• Select ALL of these conditions that are caused by genes on the X chromosome.
• Order these genetics milestones from earliest to most recent.
• Thomas Hunt Morgan proved that genes sit on chromosomes by studying which animal?
• Which technique, conceived by Kary Mullis in 1983, makes millions of copies of a piece of DNA?