Structure
Experiments
Analogies and Comparisons
Miscellaneous
Replication
100
The shape of a DNA molecule
What is a double helix
100
This transferred from dead harmful bacteria to harmless bacteria and killed mice
What is DNA
100
Eukaryotic DNA is coiled into chromosomes in this part of the cell
What is the nucleus
100
the tips of chromosomes
What are telomeres
100
These type of molecules execute the process of replication
What are enzymes
200
The three main components of a nucleotide
What is a phosphate, a 5 carbon sugar (deoxyribose), nitrogenous base (adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine)
200
Bacteriophages are _______ that infect ________
What is viruses; bacteria
200
Prokaryotic organisms have this many origins of replication
What is 1.
200
If 20% of a nucleotide sequence is Adenine, What % is guanine?
What is 30%
200
The base sequence in the template strand is CTAGGT. What is the base sequence in the complementary strand?
What is GATCCA?
300
the molecular interactions that hold together the 2 strands of DNA
What are hydrogen bonds between the bases
300
This person produced x-ray photographs shown in class that revealed the double helix
Who is Rosalind Franklin
300
Information is stored in DNA via...
What are the nitrogenous bases (base sequence, base pairing)
300
Losing a piece of DNA results in the loss of what type of information?
What is genetic or hereditary
300
The 2 processes that occur before DNA replication can begin
What is unwinding (forming a ladder) and unzipping (breaking apart the hydrogen bonds between the bases)
400
DNA strands run _________ to each other
What is antiparallel
400
This is transferred from the head of a bacteriophage to the cytoplasm of bacteria
What is DNA
400
Eukaryotic replication occurs in how many directions
What is 2 (same in prokaryotes)
400
Adenine and Guanine can both be described as
What are purines (long bonds)
400
Replication results in 2 strands, _______ of which is/are new.
What is 1? (1 new strand and 1 original strand)
500
The molecular interactions that hold the DNA backbone together
What are covalent bonds between the phosphate, the sugar, and the base
500
the process of harmless bacteria changing into harmful bacteria
What is transformation
500
What molecule is most responsible for the copying of information in the cell?
What is DNA polymerase
500
How is DNA information transmitted within an organism?
What is cell division/mitosis.
500
this molecule adds bases to the new DNA strands during replication and checks its work
What is DNA polymerase
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