Scientists
Dates
What is DNA?
Vocabulary
Misc
100
These 2 scientists performed an experiment in which bacteriophages were tagged with radioactive isotopes to prove that DNA is the hereditary molecule.
Who are Hershey and Chase
100
1962
What is the year that Watson and Crick won the Nobel Prize.
100
Deoxyribonucleic
What does DNA stand for
100
The structure of DNA
What is a double helix
100
The genetic material in cells contained in a molecule called deoxyribonucleic
What is DNA
200
Jumping genes
Who is Barbara McClintock
200
2000
What is the year that the Human Genome Project began
200
This is what DNA contains
What is a code?
200
Histones
What are the proteins called which DNA coils around
200
nucleotide, chromosome, DNA, nucleus, cell
What is the order of organization of living things
300
This scientist used X-rays on a DNA molecule to show the double helix pattern
Who is Rosalind Franklin
300
1869
What is the year that Friedrich Miescher isolated DNA
300
covalent bonds of the 'backbone'
What is the bond which holds the sugars and phosphates together
300
purines
What are guanine and adenine
300
nitrogenous bases
What are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine
400
Worked with enzymes to breakdown the pneumonia bacteria which helped to discover DNA as genetic material
Who is Oswald Avery
400
1953
What is the year that Watson and Crick published the report on the structure of DNA
400
Does most of the work for a cell and makes up much of the structure
What is a protein
400
These are segments of DNA that relate to a certain trait
What is a gene
400
C = G and A = T
What is Chargraff's Rule
500
Discovered harmless rough bacteria could be transformed into deadly smooth bacteria
Who is Griffith
500
1952
What is the year Linus Pauling published his report on the triple helix structure of DNA
500
A base, a sugar, and a phosphate group make a building block of DNA known as this.
What is a nucleotide
500
macromolecule which stores information in the form of a code
What is nucleic acid
500
This is what you need to learn to understand how DNA functions as a code
What is the structure of the DNA molecule?
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