Bases of DNA
History of DNA
DNA Structures/Jobs of DNA
Mutations
Cloning/Genes
100
Which what are the four bases?
What is Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine.
100
In 1950, which scientist discovered the rule that adenine always equals the amount of thymine, and that cytosine always equals the amount of Guanine?
What is Erwin Chargaff
100
A strand of DNA is often called a " " ladder
What is twisted
100
What are the three types of mutations?
What is substitution, insertion, and deletion
100
What are the two types of genes? (Think punnet sqaures)
What is dominant and recessive
200
Which base pairs with Thymine?
What is Adenine
200
Who first took x-ray pictures of DNA?
What is Rosalind Franklin
200
What is a large bundle of DNA called?
What is a chromosome
200
Give an example of substitution in sequence ATTA?
What is ATTT, or any other of the other letters being substituted for the respective letter
200
How many genes determine eye color?
What is about two
300
Which base pairs with Guanine?
What is Cytosine
300
What was Rosalind Franklin's famous picture?
What is Photo 51
300
Other than the 4 bases, what is a nucleotide made of?
What is sugar and phosphate
300
Give an example of insertion for the sequence ATTA?
What is ATTAT or adding any other base to it
300
What are the two genes (chromosomes) that determine gender?
What is x and y chromosome
400
Which base pairs with Adenine?
What is Thymine
400
Who first modeled DNA?
What is James Watson and Francis Crick
400
What shape does splitting DNA form?
What is a Y shape
400
Give an example of a sequence and deletion
What is ATTA, and ATA, or taking out a letter from the original sequence
400
Daily Double! The question: What was the name of the sheep that was cloned?
What is Dolly the sheep
500
Which base is a nucleotide?
What is all the bases, Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine
500
What materials did Watson and Crick use to make their first model of DNA?
What is simple everyday material, like labeled cardboard and metal rods
500
What is the secondary job of DNA after giving instructions to the cell?
What is to replicate itself
500
Give an example of a unnatural mutation
What is radiation from x-rays, and ultraviolet radiation, basically any form of radiation
500
What country is the cloned sheep from?
What is Rosalind Univertsy, Scotland
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