Fun Facts
Where was Crick born?
Where did he die? What was the reason for his death?
Northampton, England
La Jolla, California
Colon cancer
What caused Crick to discontinue is graduate research?
World War II
What is the functional unit of proteins?
amino acids
Hydrogen bonds
What is the name of the school named after Crick?
Francis Crick Institute
What did Crick's family do for a living? (father)
Ran a family boot and shoe factory
Where did Crick graduate with bachelors and what did he major in?
University College London
Physics
What is translation?
Who was Crick's partner in the discovery of the structure of DNA?
James Watson
Name two things talked about in the video that researchers can do due to their knowledge on the structure of DNA.
Spider silk in goat milk
DNA fingerprinting
Cloning
etc.
How did Crick meet his second wife?
How many kids did they have?
He needed an artist to sketch their proposed structure of DNA.
2
Cambridge University
What is transcription?
information in the DNA is converted into small portable RNA messages that is carried out to cells
What was the name of the scientist that didn't receive much credit for the discovery of the structure of DNA?
What did they do?
Rosalind Franklin
photograph 51 proved the existence of DNA has a double helix
Name of the book that suggested all aspects of human emotion and behavior could be understood by studying neural networks in the brain?
The Astonishing Hypothesis
Name some of the things that Crick did as a child that showed his fuel to learn.
Science/kitchen experiments in and outside of school
read Children's encyclopedia whenever his parents would buy it
Where did Crick begin his biology career?
What did he study there?
Strangeways Laboratory
effects of magnetism on chick fibroblasts cells
What year was The Central Dogma proposed
1958
What are the four (4) nucleotide base pairs in DNA?
Pairings?
How many bonds does each pairing have?
Adenine --> Thymine (2 bonds)
Guanine --> Cytosine (3 bonds)
Who did Crick win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962) with?
James Watson
Maurice Wilkins
Why did Crick leave the Admiralty Research Laboratory?
Never felt happy/accomplished in his knowledge and couldn't envision himself doing this for the rest of his life.
Name the pathway of Crick's different fields of study (3)
Physics --> Molecular Biology --> Neurobiology
Name the whole pathway of the Central Dogma (start to end) and the process that leads the change from one step to another.
Transcription Translation
DNA -----------------> RNA --------------> Protein
Replication
What was Linus Pauling's proposed structure of DNA? Was it correct? Why?
Proposed DNA as a triple helix with a sugar phosphate backbone.
Proved false
NDA is negatively charged and 3 negative charges would repel each other
What was the name of the book that Crick wrote about his experience from moving on from physics to the discovery of the structure of DNA?
What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery