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1) What is a Nucleotide?

Nucleotide are the smallest building blocks of genetic material and are organic molecules consisting of nucleoside and phosphate.

What is DNA?

Deoxyribonucleic acid

What are the four Nucleotides associated with DNA?

Answer:
The four different nitrogenous bases are:

Thymine

Cytosine

Adenine

Guanine

What are the four Nucleotides associated with RNA?

The four nucleotides associated with RNA are

Adenine

Uracil

Guanine

Cytosine

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2) What is a Gene?

A gene is a a string of nucleotides that code for a protein.

How many Nucleotides are in a gene?

Since genes vary in sizes the amount of nucleotide pairs also vary too. It can be anywhere from a few thousand to over a million pairs

What is the difference between coding DNA and non coding DNA?

What percent of your DNA is coding vs. Non-Coding?

About 1 percent of your DNA is coding and the other 99 percent is noncoding.

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3) What is a Chromosome?

Chromosomes are thread-like structures in which DNA molecules are packaged within.

How many genes are in a chromosome?

There are about hundred to thousand genes in a chromosome.

How many Chromosomes do humans have?

Each human has 23 chromosomes from one parent and 23 from the other making a total of 46 chromosomes.

What is a genome?

A genome is an organism's set of DNA. Genomes are inside of cells that have a nucleus.