Unit 6 Study Outline
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Cell Cycle
a. What happens in the G1 phase?
b. What happens in the S Phase?
c. What happens in the G2 Phase?
d. What happens in the G0 Phase?
e. Mitosis
i. What are the steps of Mitosis and what happens in each step?
ii. What type Organisms go through mitosis?
iii. What type of cell stay in G0 phase and no longer replicate and
why?
iv. What is a somatic cell and are they considered to be haploid or
diploid?
v. What are germ cells (reproductive cells) and are they
considered to be haploid and diploid?
vi. Why is mitosis essential to life?
f. What causes cancer and what happens to the cell cycle of cancer?
Reproduction
a. Asexual Reproduction (what organisms go through this?)
i. Binary fission
ii. Budding
iii. Regeneration
b. Sexual Reproduction (what organisms go through this?)
i. Germ cells (reproductive cells)
1. Sperm Cells
2. Egg Cell (Ovum)
ii. What is Fertilization?
iii. What is a zygote?
iv. What is an embryo
v. What is a fetus?
The History of DNA
a. Fredrick Griffith
b. Oswald Avery
c. Hershey and Chase
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DNA
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Franklin and Wilkins
Erwin Chargaff
Watson and Crick
Why is DNA important?
What is the shape of DNA?
Components of DNA
Building blocks of DNA
What is a complimentary strand?
Be able to create a complementary strand for example what is the
complementary strand for TGCAT.
g. What holds the two strands together?
h. What are purines and pyrimidines?
DNA Replication
a. What enzyme unwinds DNA and unzips it?
b. What enzyme adds the nitrogen base?
c. When does DNA Replication Occur?
d. Be able to explain how DNA replication happens.