History of DNA
DNA Structure
DNA Replication
Prokaryote vs. Eukaryote
Potpourri
100
The American Biologist who discovered the structure of DNA.
Who is James Watson?
100
The shape of DNA.
What is double helix?
100
The enzyme responsible for "unzipping" DNA.
What is Helicase?
100
Location of DNA in a prokaryote.
What is cytoplasm?
100
The number of chromosomes in a human diploid cell.
What is 46?
200
The English Physicist who also discovered the structure of DNA.
Who is Francis Crick?
200
Adenine pairs with _______.
What is Thymine?
200
After replication, DNA is now made up of one ____ strand and one ____ strand.
What is original and new?
200
Location of DNA in a eukaryote.
What is the nucleus?
200
The complimentary sequence to CTAGGT.
What is GATCCA?
300
The English Biologist who gave Watson the picture he needed.
Who is Maurice Wilkins?
300
Cytosine pairs with _____.
What is Guanine?
300
Because of base-pairing the strands are _____ to each other.
What is complimentary?
300
The number of chromosomes in a prokaryote.
What is one?
300
This says that the percent of adenine has to equal thymine and the percent of cytosine has to equal guanine.
What is Chargaff's Rule?
400
The woman who provided the x-ray defraction photograph of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
400
The proteins that DNA is wound around.
What are histones?
400
This is broken in order to "unzip" the DNA molecule.
What is hydrogen bond?
400
The shape of the chromosome in a prokayote.
What is circular?
400
DNA is copied during a process called ____.
What is replication?
500
The year that Watson & Crick won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of DNA.
What is 1962?
500
Deoxyribose, phosphate and a nitrogen base make up a _______.
What is nucleotide?
500
The enzyme responsible for proofreading the new DNA and bringing the free nucleotides to the growing DNA strand.
What is DNA Polymerase?
500
The number of chromosomes in a eukaryote.
What is more than one?
500
Rosalind Franklin performed ______ to see the structure of DNA.
What is x-ray crystollagraphy?
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