Discovery of DNA
Her picture was stolen to provide the key to DNA's structure
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This is the name for the repeated unit that makes up DNA.
What is a nucleotide?
This is the enzyme that breaks the hydrogen bonds between bases and opens the DNA molecule for replication.
What is DNA helicase?
This is the number of chromosomes in the average human somatic cell.
What is 46?
Humans share about this much DNA with a Banana.
What is 50%?
Won the Nobel Prize for the Discovery of DNA
Who are Watson, Crick, Wilkins
DNA is made up of repeated parts, including sugar, phosphate, and this other molecule.
A nitrogen-containing base.
This is the enzyme that seals the lagging strand.
What is ligase?
Chromosomes are organized into these pairs - one came from your mother's DNA, and one came from your father's DNA.
What is homologous?
What are fingerprints?
Previous to the experiments with DNA, scientists thought that this molecule carried the instructions for life.
What is a protein?
This is the name that refers to the twisted ladder structure of DNA.
What is a double helix?
This is the name of the fragments that are formed on the lagging strand.
What are okazaki fragments?
This is the type of cell that is diploid, and contains the full number of chromosomes that an organism has.
What is somatic?
Across the globe, humans share about this much DNA with all other humans.
What is 99.9%?
In the Hershey and Chase experiment, this type of virus was used to prove DNA carried genetic material.
What is a bacteriophage?
This is the name of the base that is not found in DNA, only in RNA.
What is uracil?
On the ORIGINAL molecule, DNA is copied from this direction to this direction.
What is 3' to 5'?
To form chromosomes, chromatin (long stretches of DNA) is wound around these proteins.
What is a histone?
If you uncoiled all the DNA in your body, it would stretch from the earth to this planet AND BACK 4 times.
What is Neptune?
In Griffith's Experiment, what was the name of the virulent strain of bacteria?
What is the S-strain?
Containing a double ring, Adenine and Guanine are an example of this.
What is a purine?
DNA copies at this rate.
What is 50 base pairs per second?
This is the number of chromosomes in a fruit fly somatic cell.
What is 8?
There are roughly 3 Billion of these in DNA.
What is a base pair?