Definitions
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Complementary Base to Adenine
Thymine
Franklin and Wilkins
Used X-ray crystallography to develop images of DNA
Gene
A section of DNA that codes for a trait
What is a Nucleotide?
A building block of DNA, consisting of a five-carbon sugar, a nitrogenous base, and a phosphate group.
Complementary base to cytosine
Guanine
Watson and Crick
Developed an accurate model of DNA
Deoxyribose
A five-carbon sugar that is a component of DNA nucleotides
What is Deoxribose sugar?
Sugar used in DNA to make up the "backbone".
The complementary DNA strand of the following is:
ATT TAA ACC GAG
TAA ATT TGG CAC
Chargaff's Rule
A bonds with T, G bonds with C
DNA back bone is made from what?
Made from phosphate and deoxiribose
Double Helix
Shape of the DNA molecule
Purine example
Adenine or Guanine
Fredrick Griffith
Experiment with mouse and pneumonia showed the DNA was the transforming agent
Purines
Two ringed nitrogen base
Amino Acids
Monomer of proteins
Pyrimidine example
Cytosine or Thymine
Hershey-Chase
Experiment showed that DNA was transferred when phages infected bacteria
Pyrimidines
Single ringed nitrogen base