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The scientists who determined Semi-conservative Replication

What is Meselson and Stahl?

100

The thing James Watson and Francis Crick are now famous for

What is hypothesizing the structure of DNA?

100

Things consisting of a nucleotide

What is a phosphate group, a five-carbon sugar, and a nitrogenous base?

100

DNA replicates through this process

What is Semi-conservative Replication?

100

Difference concerning the leading strand and lagging strand of DNA

What is leading strand = 5' to 3' direction, lagging strand = 3' to 5' direction?

200

The person who conducted X-ray diffraction studies that were key to the discovery of the structure of DNA

What is Rosalind Franklin?

200

Process in which an exact copy of each chromosome is made before a cell divides

What is replication?

200

The "rails" of the ladder in the ladder anthology of the DNA molecule

What is joined sugar and phosphate?
200

The enzyme which separates the two sides of a helix during DNA replication

What is DNA helicase?

200

Person who took X-ray diffraction photograph known as photo 51?

What is Rosalind Franklin?

300

Three scientists awarded for the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA

Who is Crick, Watson, and Wilkins?

300

Definition of Okazaki Fragments

What is fragment of DNA synthesized discontinuously on lagging strand?

300
The complementary sequence of T-C-A-A-G-C of a DNA molecule

What is A-G-T-T-C-G?

300

The meaning of a DNA molecule's sides being antiparallel

What is the nucleotides on either side run in opposite directions?

300

The abnormance sequence involved in the production of abnormal red blood cells

What is bases?

400

The fact about DNA that was shown in Avery's 1943 experiment

What is DNA was the substance that transformed bacteria in Griffith's experiment?

400

Definition of helicase

What is facilitates the unwinding of a DNA molecule?

400

The "rungs" of the ladder in the ladder anthology of the DNA molecule

What is paired nitrogenous bases?

400

The weakest bonds in DNA

What is two nitrogenous bases?

400

Technique most helpful to Watson and Crick

What is X-ray crystallography?

500

State Chargaff's Law

What is the rule that in DNA there is always equality in quantity between the bases A and T and between the bases G and C?

500

Definition of single stranded binding proteins 

What is help keep separated strands apart?

500

Function of DNA polymerase I

What is adds nucleotides to the DNA strand in 5' to 3' direction?
500

Four bases contained in DNA

What is adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine?

500

Material from ____ bacteria transformed _____ bacteria during Griffith's experiments with pneumococci in mice

What is heat-killed virulent..living nonvirulent?

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