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Scientists of the Day
Basic DNA Information
Gel Electrophoresis
DNA or RNA?
100
The process of copying DNA prior to cell division
What is replication?
100
Scientist(s) who made the modern model of DNA
Who are Watson and Crick?
100
The set of rules saying that 1) A=T and G=C and 2) amount of A, T, C, G varies by species
What are Chargaff's Rules?
100
Types of evidence DNA can be extracted from
What are saliva, fingerprints, skin under fingernails or on clothes, and hair?
100
The blueprint
What is DNA?
200
The process in which one strain of bacteria is changed by a gene or genes from another strain of bacteria
What is transformation?
200
The scientist(s) who took Photo 51
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
200
The bonds between A and T or C and G
What is a hydrogen bond?
200
A type of reaction that creates billions of copies of DNA
What is a Polymerase Chain Reaction?
200
Contains nucleotides A, U, C, and G
What is RNA?
300
A kind of virus that infects a bacteria
What is a bacteriophage?
300
The scientist(s) who discovered that DNA is the genetic material by injecting radioactive Phosphorus and Sulfur into a bacteria, using bacteriophages
Who are Hershey and Chase?
300
The structure of DNA, which looks like a twisted ladder
What is a double helix?
300
Gel electrophoresis runs from the ________ end to the ________ end
What is from the negative to the positive?
300
Contains base pairing
What is DNA?
400
The principal enzyme involved in DNA replication
What is DNA polymerase?
400
The scientist(s) who discovered that the "transforming material" is DNA
Who are Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty?
400
The three aspects that make up a nucleotide
What are a phosphate group, a sugar (deoxyribose), and a nitrogen-containing base?
400
The fragments that move more slowly
What are larger fragments?
400
Double-stranded
What is DNA?
500
Repetitive DNA at the end of a eukaryotic chromosome
What is a telomere?
500
The scientist(s) who discovered nuclein in pus cells
Who is Friedrich Miescher?
500
The amount of nucleotides the human genome carries
What is around 3 billion?
500
What appear as different size bands on a gel
What are STRs (short tandem repeats)?
500
Contains the sugar ribose
What is RNA?
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