What is DNA?
All about that base
Replication
Discovering DNAs shape
Base-pairing Rules
100
DNA stands for
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
100
DNA has how many nitrogenous bases?
What is 4?
100
The type of bond that holds base pairs together is?
What is hydrogen bond?
100
DNA has a specific shape called a ______________, which can be described as a twisted ladder.
What is double helix?
100
Adenine pairs with?
What is Thymine?
200
DNA is which of the following organic molecules? a) lipid b) carbohydrate c) protein d) nucleic acid
What is d) nucleic acid?
200
What is the name for the base represented by (A)?
What is Adenine?
200
A strand of DNA is supported by its "backbones". Which two molecules make up the backbone of DNA?
What is sugar and phosphate
200
True/False: DNA exists normally in your cells as a single-strand of nucleotides having one backbone connected to nitrogenous bases.
What is False?
200
Guanine pairs with ___________?
What is Cytosine?
300
A nucleic acid is made of smaller units or building blocks called ______________.
What is a nucleotide?
300
What is the name for the base represented by (G)?
What is Guanine?
300
The enzyme responsible for unzipping DNA
What is helicase?
300
Thinking back to the twisted ladder analogy, what do the sides of the ladder represent?
What is sugar phosphate backbone
300
If one strand of DNA reads ATCGA use the base-pair rules to come up with the sequence on the other complementary strand of the same DNA.
What is TAGCT?
400
DNA nucleotides are made up of three components.
What is sugar, phosphate, and nitrogen base.
400
What is the name for a base represented by a (T)?
What is Thymine?
400
The proofreading/builder enzyme in DNA replication
What is DNA polymerase?
400
What is the name of the scientist who extracted DNA from certain cells, took x-ray photographs of it and saw an x-shaped picture? (female)
What is Rosalind Franklin?
400
One strand of DNA reads GGACTTC, what is the sequence on the complementary strand?
What is CCTGAAG?
500
The sugar in DNA is made up of 5 carbons, what is the specific name of this 5-carbon sugar?
What is deoxyribose?
500
What is the name for the base represented by (C).
What is Cytosine?
500
The type of bond that holds the sugar and phosphate molecules together.
What is covalent bond?
500
What were the names of the two scientists who first modeled the structure of a DNA molecule as a twisted, double-helix shape.
What is Watson and Crick?
500
In RNA, Thymine is replaced with this base.
What is Uracil?
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