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100
This type of siblings can be classified as either "identical" or "fraternal."
What are twins?
100
This end of the DNA strand acts like the "sticky" part of velcro.
What is 3'?
100
This is the number of nitrogen bases that exist in DNA.
What is four?
100
This term refers to the part of DNA that helps provide it's structure.
What is the phosphate backbone?
100
This biochemist, is renowned for his rule, which describes the pairing of nitrogenous bases in DNA and played a critical role in the understanding of the DNA double helix structure.
Who is Erwin Chargaff?
200
This is the percentage of similarity that our DNA is to each other (humans).
What is 99.9%?
200
This part of the DNA molecule is represented by the letter A.
What is phosphate?
200
This nitrogen base loves to pair with Guanine.
What is Cytosine?
200
This twisted ladder-like structure is a key feature of DNA.
What is the double helix?
200
This scientist uncovered the principles of inheritance.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
300
This fruit has 4x as many copies of DNA as humans.
What is a Strawberry?
300
This part of the DNA molecule is represented by the letter C.
What is a nitrogen base?
300
This nitrogen base loves to pair Adenine.
What is Thymine?
300
This is a building block of DNA and is composed of a sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base.
What is a nucleotide?
300
This English biophysicist worked with X-ray diffraction which played a crucial role in the discovery of the DNA double helix structure.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
400
This was the name of a 2017 Kendrick Lamar Song. OR the abbreviated name for Deoxyribonucleic Acid.
What is DNA?
400
The "backbone" of the DNA molecule is made up of these two components.
What is deoxyribose sugar and phosphate?
400
This is the number of hydrogen bonds that connect Adenine and Thymine?
What is two?
400
This is the term for the orientation of the the two DNA strands that are lined up and facing opposite directions.
What is antiparallel?
400
This science duo, confirmed that DNA, not protein, is the genetic material by using radioactive labeling of bacteriophages.
Who is Martha Chase and Alfred Hershey?
500
This specific type of bond holds the nitrogenous bases together in the DNA double helix?
What is a hydrogen bond?
500
This part of the DNA molecule is represented by the letter B.
What is deoxyribose sugar?
500
Write out the complementary strand to this:
ATTAGCGG
What is TAATCGCC?
500
Draw a quick drawing of DNA and label the 5' and 3' end.
5' end has phosphate, 3' does not
500
This British bacteriologist performed experiments with Streptococcus pneumoniae in mice leading to the discovery of bacterial transformation, a key concept in the study of genetics.
Who is Frederick Griffith?