Bacteria
Scientists
DNA Structure
Bases
Wild Card
100

A virus that infects bacteria

What is a bacteriophage?
100
This pair of scientists first determined the correct structure of DNA?
Who were Watson and Crick?
100
DNA is the abbreviation for this molecular structure.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
100

These are DNA's 4 nitrogenous bases.

What are adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine?

100

A copying process which duplicates the DNA.

What is replication?
200

The shape of a bacteria cell's DNA.

What is circular?
200
This scientist used x-rays to create images of DNA's double helix shape (and likely died an early death due to radiation poisoning!)
Who was Rosalind Franklin?
200

These compounds consist of 3 parts: a 5 carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base.

What is a nucleotide?
200
This idea states that nitrogenous bases A and T only pair together in equal amounts, while C and G only pair together in equal amounts.
What is Chargaff's rule?
200

DNA at the tips of chromosomes which is difficult to replicate.

What are telomeres?
300

The material incorporated into the bacterial DNA by a phage.

What is phage DNA
300
This scientist has a rule named after him stating that the amount of A must equal the amount of T, and the same for C and G.
Who was Erwin Chargaff?
300

This is the overall shape of DNA, where 2 DNA molecules twist around each other like a ladder.

What is a double helix?
300
This process that unwinds DNA can only happen because the nitrogenous bases of DNA are weakly bonded.
What is unzipping?
300

The complementary DNA strand if the original strand's sequence is CGTA.

What is GCAT?
400

The process where 1 strain of bacteria is changed by genes from another strain of bacteria.

What is transformation?
400

This scientist studied the r-strain and s-strain of bacteria and how it influenced mice.

Who was Frederick Griffith?
400

These bonds are easily broken and for between certain nitrogenous bases.

What are hydrogen bonds?
400
If the amount of A and T together in a strand of DNA is 70%, then this is what the amount of C and G together in that same strand equals.
What is 30%
400

To store, copy, and transmit genetic information in a cell.

What are the roles of DNA?
500
A bacterial cell's genetic information is found here.
What is cytoplasm?
500

These scientists used radioactive materials on bacteriophages to see which material got passed on to bacteria cells, DNA or proteins. They found that DNA was the molecule responsible.

Who were Hershey and Chase?
500

These are the type of bonds that form between the sugar group of one nucleotide and the phosphate group of the next nucleotide.

What are covalent bonds?
500
If the amount of G in a DNA strand is 88%, then the amount of T must be this.
What is 12%
500

These are bead-like structures of DNA and histones.

What are nucleosomes?
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