Transforming Principle
DNA 1
DNA History
DNA Function
Hodge Podge
100
What does DNA stand for
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?
100
The stage of the cell cycle in which DNA replication takes place.
What is S (synthesis) stage of Interphase?
100
This German monk contributed much to the understanding of genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
100
DNA contains the instructions for building ______.
What is proteins?
100
DNA is a _______________ or long chain of repeating subunits
What is a Polymer?
200
Double Jeopardy!
Which of the following are heritable traits:
a. eye color
b. laziness
c. hair texture
d. Call of duty skills
e. height
what are a, c, and e.
200
This is the name of the subunit/building block of DNA and contains a sugar, a phosphate, and a base.
What is nucleotide?
200
Griffith's experiment with R and S pneumonia-causing bacteria confirmed the existence of a ____________________
What is the Transforming Principle
200
Guanine (G) always bonds with _____________
What is Cytosine (C)?
200
Double Jeopardy!
The repeating subunits of a polymer are called _______________. In DNA, they are ____________________.
What is monomers and nucleotides?
300
What is the study of biological inheritance patterns and variations in organisms called...
Genetics
300
The type of bond that holds the ribose sugar of one nucleotide to the phosphate group of another nucleotide. (A nonmetal combined with a nonmetal)
What is a covalent bond?
300
By process of elimination, what was discovered through Oswald Avery's experiments.
DNA was the transforming principle.
300
Thymine (T) always bonds with what purine?
What is Adenine (A)?
300
Triple Jeopardy!
Identify parts A, B, and C correctly
A) Phosphate Group
B) Nitrogenous Base (Purine)
C) Ribose Sugar
400
Name the purines and pyrimidines
Purines are Adenine and Guanine
Pyrimidines are Thymine and Cytosine
400
The type of bond that holds the complementary bases together.
What is hydrogen bonds?
400
Double Jeopardy!
After Oswald Avery's experiments, there remained a controversy as to which was the transforming principle: ________________ or ________________
What is Protein or DNA
400
This is the official SHAPE DNA is described as.
What is double helix?
400
How does the Central Dogma connect proteins, DNA, and RNA
DNA is used to make RNA which is used to make Protein
DNA -> RNA -> Protein
500
Double Jeopardy!
What is the difference between Purines and Pyrimidines?
Pyrimidines have a single-ring structure
Purines have a double-ring structure
500
Double Jeopardy
If there is 30% Guanine in a DNA molecule, how much ADENINE would there be?
What is 20%?
500
Double Jeopardy!
The Hershey and Chase Experiments confirmed what?DNA, rather than protein, was the transforming principle.
500
Double Jeopardy!
If a strand of DNA is TACGGTCGA, this is the complementary strand.
What is ATGCCAGCT?
500
Double Jeopardy!
What is the complimentary DNA strand for a strand with the nucleotide sequence AACCCGGTTT
What is TTGGGCCAAA?