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This person won a Nobel prize for discovering an enzyme that protects the ends of chromosomes leading to a greater health span
Who is Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn
This enzyme unzips the DNA molecule in DNA replication
What is helicase?
This enzyme adds bases to the ends of chromosomes to help preserve and protect the chromosome
What is telomerase
Nucleotide triplets are called
What are codons
Most mistakes in DNA replication are corrected by this quality of DNA polymerase
What is proofreading
James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins won a Nobel prize for this discovery
What is the double helix structure of DNA
Process in which sister chromatids fail to separate in meiosis, result in the incorrect number of chromosomes in a cell
What is nondisjunction
X-ray diffraction image taken by __________ helped lead Watson and Crick to the discovery of _________________
What is Rosalind Franklin and double stranded DNA structure
The flow of genetic material transcribed into mRNA then translated into proteins
What is the central dogma of microbiology
Point, missense, and nonsense are types of
What are point mutations
This scientist used x-ray diffraction crystallography to create images of molecular structures, including DNA and photo 51
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
DNA replication works in which direction
What is 5' to 3' direction?
Meselson and Stahl used isotopes of nitrogen to discover DNA replication is
What is semiconservative
The steps of Initiation, Elongation, and Termination take place in which process
What are Transcription and Translation
small circular DNA of bacteria that can be passed to other cells independently; a key idea in antibiotic resistance
What are plasmids
This scientist conducted research that showed A-T and C-G percentages were the same leading to a rule named after him
Who is Erwin Chargaff?
DNA ligase fills in gaps between these parts of DNA
What are Okazaki fragments?
This enzyme adds bases one by one in DNA replication
What is DNA polymerase
UAA, UAG, UGA
What are the stop codons
AUG is known as this
What is a start codon
This scientist, atheist turned catholic, was director of the human genome project
Who is Francis Collins?
This enzyme catalyzes peptide bond on the larger ribosomal subunit of protein synthesis
What is peptidyl transferase?
Virus that infects bacteria
What is a bacteriophage
What is a promoter region?
"If music be the food of love, play on." is a famous line from this Shakespearean play
What is Twelfth night?