2. What is inside every cell in your body? Chromosomes
3. What does DNA stand for? Deoxyribonucleic Acid
4. What did Bill climb to get out of the Nye Lab? A DNA molecule
5. How long is the DNA string model of science? About 20
6. How many times longer is DNA than it is wide? About 200 km
7. How does Bill define a Gene? A specific piece of DNA
8. Why is the white blood cell dark on the computer screen? Because it has chromosomes in it.
9. What does the nucleus of the cell contain? DNA
10. What can you do with DNA after you take it out of an organism?a. Cut it into smaller piecesb. Place into another organism
11. What 2 organisms were combined to create the message to Bill in the petri dish? Sea Jelly and a bacteria
12. What do genes do? They tell cells what to do
13. Mom tells Richie: Genes are the set of chemical instructions that get passed down from Parent to child. In the process, of course, the genetic material is recombined in new ways, which is why some people bear resemblance to their Parents and Grandparents without looking like any one relative in particular.
14. What analogy does Bill use to describe the human set of chromosomes? A set of books that have 23 pairs.
15. What is each chapter analogous to? A gene
16. How many genes to humans have? 80 000 genes
17. What do cells in the body not need to do? Read every gene in the whole cell.
18. Most species have fewer than 100 chromosomes but thousands and thousands of genes
19. Bill calls the babies “bundles of Genetic Code”
20. The reproductive cell that a mother donates to her child is called the Egg
21. The reproductive cell that a father donates to his child is called the Sperm
22. The number of cells needed to make a baby is: 50 000 000 000 000
23. DNA is the Blue print for the future
24. Earlobes can be Attached or Dangling
25. A Gene is a piece of the DNA molecule
26. The four chemicals of DNA are
1. adenine
2. thymine
3. cytosine
4. guanine
27. The number of chromosomes that a mule foal has is 63
28. The number of chromosomes that a horse has is 64
29. The number of chromosomes that a donkey has is 62
30. In the demonstration, the Dominant gene for rolling your tongue is represented by the letter “R”
31. In the demonstration, the Recessive gene for rolling your tongue is represented by the letter “r”
32. If a person has the pattern RR, then the person can roll their tongue
33. If a person has the pattern Rr, then the person can roll their tongue
34. If a person has the pattern rr, then the person cannot roll their tongue
35. What is special about the turtle in this movie? It has 2 heads
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Bill Nye Genes