DNA Structure
DNA Replication
Substance of Genes
Where does it happen?
Misc.
100
Watson and Crick used this term to describe the shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
100
This is what results from copying one molecule of DNA
What are two molecules of DNA?
100
Before DNA could definitively be shown to be the genetic material in cells, scientists had to show that it could do what?
What is carry and make copies of information.
100
This is where DNA replication takes place.
What is the nucleus?
100
The process by which one strain of bacterium is apparently changed into another strain.
What is transformation?
200
The sugars and the phosphates.
What is the "backbone of a DNA molecule"?
200
This is the first step in the replication of one DNA molecule.
What is the unwinding of DNA?
200
copying,storing, transmitting information
What are the roles of DNA?
200
The sites where replication occurs are called.
What is the replication fork?
200
A virus that only infects bacteria
What is a bacteriophage?
300
The type of bond that holds bases together in the double helix.
What is a hydrogen bond?
300
This is what you call a "G" binding with a "C" or an "A" binding with a "T".
What is a base pair?
300
1928
What is the year Griffith begin his experiment to find out how bacteria made people sick?
300
This is where translation takes place.
What is the cytoplasm?
300
With RNA, A (adenine) binds with this other base.
What is U (uracil)?
400
A (nitrogenous) base, a sugar, and a phosphate.
What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide?
400
The enzyme that is used to make a copy of a DNA molecule.
What is DNA polymerase?
400
The strains that caused the mouse to die.
What is the S strain and the heat-killed S strain and live R strain
400
In prokaryotes, DNA molecules are located in the
What is the cytoplasm?
400
This researcher used radioactive markers in experiments to show that DNA was the genetic material in cells.
Who are Hershey and Chase?
500
He is credited with the discovery that the amount of G's was roughly equal to the amount of C's (and A's with T's) in several samples of DNA.
Who is Erwin Chargaff?
500
The DNA base sequence for ACTGCACG and the RNA base sequence for UCGACCUA
What is TGACGTGC and AGCUGGAU?
500
1944
What is the year Avery repeated Griffith's work?
500
In Eukaryotes, nearly all DNA is found in the
What is the nucleus?
500
DNA is an abbreviation for this term.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
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