history
the men that discovered the double helix
what are Watson and Crick
makes up the backbone of the double helix
what is sugar and phosphate?
rules that determine how nitrogen bases bond
what are the base pairing rules?
The enzyme that separates the two strands by breaking hydrogen bonds
what is dna ligase?
the number of hydrogen bonds between C and G
what is 3?
the woman that did x-ray crystallography
who is Rosalin Franklin?
the result of twisting the dna molecule
what is a the double helix?
One strand is 5'-3' and the other is 3'-5'
what is antiparallel?
the enzyme that adds new nucleotides in replication
what is dna polymerase?
the enzyme that proofreads
what is dna polymerase?
these two men showed that the dna was transferred from a virus to a bacteria
who are Hershey and Chase?
the nitrogen base that bonds to cytosine
what is guanine?
the two purines
what are A and G?
the complementary strand to AACCGGTT
what is TTGGCCAA?
the scientist that discovered transformation
who is Griffith?
the man who discovered that a=t and g=c
who was Chargaff?
the number of nitrogen bases in dna
what is 4?
the two pyrimidines
what are cytosine and thymine?
the number of errors in replication
what is 1:10,000?
what bases are attached to in the backbone
what is sugar?
the person that made x-ray diffraction studies of dna
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
the molecule with phosphorus in it
what is phosphate?
the number of carbons in deoxyribose
what is 5?
what signals replication to stop
What is all the dna is copied?
the area where the double helix separates
what is the replication fork?