DNA structure
RNA
history of DNA
translation
mutations and miscellaneous
100
double helix
What is the shape of DNA
100
ribose
What is the sugar in RNA?
100
double helix
What is the shape of DNA?
100
amino acid
What is the monomer of a polypeptide?
100
mutagen
What is anything that causes a mutation?
200
adenine bonds to thymine and guanine bonds to cytosine
What is base pairing
200
thymine
What is a nitrogen base NOT found in RNA?
200
Watson and Crick
Who were given the Nobel Prize for discovering the shape of DNA?
200
the bond that holds amino acids together in a polypeptide
What is a peptide bond?
200
heat and radiation
What are two common mutagens?
300
hydrogen bonding
What is the type of bond that holds base pairs together in DNA
300
Transfer RNA
What is the type of RNA that brings in the amino acids to build a polypeptide chain?
300
saw pneumococcus bacteria change from rough to smooth by a process he called transformation
Who is Frederick Griffith?
300
the site of transcription
What is the nucleus?
300
an addition or deletion mutation that messes up the entire code from that point on
What is a frameshift mutation?
400
purines
What is the type of base of adenine and guanine because of their double ring structure
400
messenger RNA
What is the type of RNA that reads the DNA to carry the code out to a ribosome?
400
used radioisotopes of phosphorus and sulfur to see if DNA or protein was being injected into bacteria by viruses called bacteriophages
Who is Hershey and Chase
400
the site of translation
What is the ribosomes?
400
didn't share in the Nobel Prize for the structure of DNA because she died of cancer
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
500
from 5' to 3'
What is the direction DNA is read?
500
ribosomal RNA
What is the type of RNA that builds a ribosome?
500
used enzymes to destroy biological molecules one at a time and determined that DNA was the transforming factor from Griffith's experiments
Who were Avery, McCarty,and McCleod
500
a set of three bases on tRNA that allows amino acids to be brought in correctly
What is an anticodon
500
the percentage of cytosine in DNA if there is 20% adenine,
What is 39%?
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