structure of DNA
DNA Replication
Transcription
History of DNA
Translation
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Chemically, DNA is made up of this
What is nucleotides?
100
the complementary base pairs
What is AT and CG
100
String of amino acids
What is polypeptide?
100
In 1928, Frederick Griffith discovered this while working on Streptococcus pneumoniae.
What is transformation?
100
transfer DNA
What is tRNA
200
DNA helices begin unwinding from this
What is the nucleosomes?
200
where replication occurs
What is replication bubble?
200
length of RNA that results from the process of transcription
What is Primary transcription?
200
Two key experiments that demonstrated conclusively that DNA, and not protein, is the hereditary material
What is The Avery and Hershey-Chase experiment?
200
The 2 sub units that separate in cytoplasm until they join to begi translation
What is ribosomes
300
the two main types of the bases
What is purines and pyrimidines?
300
the job of each nucleotide
What is to serve as a template for building new complementary strands
300
type of RNA that encodes information for the synthesis of proteins and carries it to a ribosome from the nucleus
What is mRNA?
300
Erwin Chargaff made DNA observations that became known as this
What is Chargaff’s rule?
300
brings amino acids to the ribosomes
What is tRNA
400
untwists the double helix and exposes complementary strands
What is helicase?
400
splices together the short segments of the discontinuous strands
What is ligase
400
RNA forms pairs with DNA
What is transcription
400
Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction experiments revealed that DNA had the shape of this
What is a coiled spring or helix?
400
tRNA lines up amino acids using
What is mRNA code
500
reads along each naked single strand adding the complementary nucleotide
What is DNA polymerase?
500
two new telomeres that are also synthesized
What is semi conservative replication?
500
The 2 complex functions of RNA polymerase
What is undwind DNA sequence and produce primary transcript by stringing together the chain of RNA nucleotides
500
these two men deduced that DNA was a double helix
What is James Watson and Francis Crick
500
complements mRNA codon
What is anticodon
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