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Who was Erwin Chargaff and what did he do?

Developed a series of rules based on DNA base composition in organisms

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What nitrogenous bases are paired in what combinations?

A pairs T and G pairs C

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What is a Helicase?

Unwinds, seperates DNA

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What is the error rate of DNA?

1/1B Nucleotides

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T/F Genetic code is universal
TRUE
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What is DNA?

A polymer of nucleotides, N base, deoxyribose, and P group

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How many bonds does A and T form?

2

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T/F DNA polymerases cannot initate synthesis of a polynucleotide?

FALSE

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What is the bridge between DNA and protein synthesis is called what?

RNA

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What does a protometer do?

attaches and initates transcription

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What is in Human DNA?

Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine

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How many bonds does G and C form?

3

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To start a new chain requires a what?

Primer

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During transcription, one DNA strand serves as a template to create what?

RNA

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Terminator does what?
Signals the end of a transcription?
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Who created the structure of DNA?

James Watson and Francis Crick

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Watson and Crick's model is called what?

the semi-conservative model

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A Primer is what?

A short segment of RNA, about 10 nucleotides long

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During translation, blocks of three neucleotides called Codons are deconded into a sequence of what?

Amino Acids

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Transcriptions 3 stages are:

Initation, Elongation, and Termination

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How many bases are there before a twist in DNA?

10

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What are old and new nucleotides labeled?

New = 14N, Old = 15N

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If there is an incorrect pairing what will an enzyme do?

Remove the wrong nucleotide and resumes synthesis.

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When was the code for DNA to RNA figured out?

mid-1960s

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The presence of a promtometer sequence determines what?

Which strand of the DNA helix is the template