DNA
RNA
Chargaff's Rule
DNA History
Miscellaneous
100

The sugar that is part of DNA

What is deoxyribose?

100

What is a monomer of RNA called?

What is a nucleotide?

100

Code for a complimentary DNA of strand below

A T C C G

What is T A G G C?
100

Who calculated the structure of DNA and named it a "double helix"?

Who were James Watson and Francis Crick?

100

What is the name of RNA's structure?

What is a single helix?

200

The 4 nitrogen bases of DNA

What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?

200

What sugar is unique to RNA?

What is Ribose?

200

Code for a complimentary RNA strand of the strand below

T C G A A

What is A G C U U?

200

Who was the first to support that genetic material is DNA, but no one believed him?

Who was Oswald Avery?

200

How many nitrogenous bases are found on a tRNA?

What are only 3 nitrogenous bases?

300

Pick the 2 cells that share the same DNA sequence


           Individual 1       Individual 2

Lung      Cell 1                 Cell 2

Hair       Cell 3                 Cell 4

What are Cells 1 and 3?

or 

What are Cells 2 and 4?

300

The full names for the three different types of RNA as well as their acronym?

What are messenger RNA (mRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA) and ribosomal RNA (rRNA)?

300

Make a complimentary tRNA of the mRNA strand below


U G A

What is A C U?

300

Who took the first picture of DNA and aided in the discovery of its shape?

Who was Rosalind Franklin?

300

What makes up the backbone of nucleic acid?

What are sugars and phosphates?

400

The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block)

What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogen base?

400

The names of the 4 nitrogen bases of RNA.

What are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Uracil?

400

Below is an mRNA strand, how many tRNA strands will pair up with the strand below?


U G A A C G U U U

How many are 3 tRNA?

400

Who determined the complimentary pairs of DNA?

Who was Erwin Chargaff?

(Chargaff's Rule)

400

The scientists who proved that genetic material come from DNA and not proteins through the use of radioactive viruses.

Who were Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase?

500

The reason why DNA replication happens.

What is to pass on genetic information to other cells during cell division (mitosis and meiosis)?

500

Which types of RNA can be found in the nucleus?

What are only mRNA and rRNA?
500

Code a complimentary rRNA strand of the strand below


T G A A C G T

What is A C U U G C A?

500

Who first established that "genetic material" can be passed between organisms?

Who was Frederick Griffith?

500

What is type of bond holds nitrogenous bases together?

What is a hydrogen bond?

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