History of DNA
DNA was first discovered in this year...
What is 1869?
DNA is responsible for holding this kind of material...
What is genetic information?
Also accepted: hereditary material, genetic code
This molecule splits the DNA molecule apart
What is DNA helicase?
This is where transcription takes place in the cell...
What is the nucleus?
This is where translation takes place in the cell...
What is the cytoplasm?
Also accepted: Ribosome
These two scientists are recognized for supposedly developing the first model of DNA's structure...
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
This base-pairing can be remembered with the phrase, "the apple goes in the tree,"...
What is adenine and thymine?
Accepted in any order
This is the point where a DNA strand starts splitting...
What is the replication fork?
This enzyme is responsible for matching nucleotides to the main strand...
What is DNA polymerase?
These sets of three nitrogenous bases are located on the main strand of DNA...
This scientist used x-ray diffraction technology and is believed to be the first to discover DNA's double-helix shape. Her death from ovarian cancer at 37 is thought to have come from her extensive use of x-ray diffraction technology without proper protection...
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This base-pairing can be remembered with the phrase, "the car goes in the garage,"...
What is guanine and cytosine?
Accepted in any order
The top strand of DNA is referred to as...
What is the leading strand?
This is the only direction DNA polymerase can copy DNA strands in...
What is 5'-3'?
These sets of three nitrogenous bases are matched to their complementary bases located on the main DNA strand...
What are anticodons?
This scientist discovered the ratios between nitrogenous bases and helped develop the base-pairing rule...
Who is Erwin Chargraff?
DNA is located in this organelle, only found in eukaryotic cells...
What is the nucleus?
The bottom strand of DNA is referred to as...
What is the lagging strand?
The lagging strand runs in this direction...
What is 3'-5'?
What is tRNA?
This Swiss biologist discovered DNA in 1869 by observing white blood cells on used bandages from a nearby hospital...
Who is Friedrich Miescher?
This is the shape of DNA, recognizable for its "twisted ladder" shape...
What is double helix?
This allows DNA to replicate seeing as strands are what to each other...
What is complementary?
What are Okazaki fragments?
This is the RNA piece of where translation takes place...
What is rRNA?