People related to DNA
This person deduced that units of inheritance are contained within chromosomes.
Who is Walter Sutton?
This is a coiled double helix that carries all of a cell’s hereditary information.
What is DNA?
A nucleotides contain...
What is adenine?
The first enzyme that acts on the origin point
What is Helicase?
RNA stands for...
What is Ribonucleic acid?
This person set out to study white blood cells obtained from pus-coated bandages at a nearby clinic.
Who is Johann Friedrich Miescher?
The double helix structure of DNA is often referred to as...
T nucleotides contain...
What is thymine?
This is a single stranded molecule found in a cell’s nucleus and cytoplasm.
What is Ribonucleic acid?
RNA contains this instead of thymine (T) and pairs with adenine (A).
What is uracil (U)?
This person isolated the five nitrogen bases that make up nucleon: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), thymine (T), and uracil (U).
Who is Albrecht Kossel?
The sides of a DNA ladder
What is the phosphate backbone?
G nucleotides contain...
What is guanine?
The 3 bases of tRNA that are complementary to a codon on mRNA are called...
What are anticodons?
This occurs when a purine joins with a pyrimidine.
What is base pairing?
This person discovered that a certain class of dyes reveal thread-like material within a cell’s nucleus
Who is Walther Flemming?
The rungs of the DNA ladder
What are nitrogen bases?
C nucleotides contain...
What is cytosine?
This enzyme makes temporary nicks in the double helix to keep it from becoming too tightly wound
What is topoisomerase?
These two people captured a striking image of the structure of DNA using X-ray crystallography.
Who are Rosalind Franklin and her student, Raymond Gosling?
These two people confirmed that DNA is genetic material.
Who are Martha Chase and Alfred Hershey?
What Does DNA stand for?
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?
Each nucleotide within DNA contains...(3 things)
What is a phosphate, a deoxyribose sugar, and a nitrogen base?
When this reaches the end of a strand, it cleans up leftover primers and seals any gaps in the DNA.
What is DNA polymerase?
These people became the first to produce an accurate model of the double helix structure of DNA
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?