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This scientist worked with bacteria and mice. Learned that even dead bacteria still be useful through a process that he called Transformation

Frederick Griffith

100

A process in which a bacteria is changed by information from another bacteria.

Sounds like it could be part of a movie about robots disguised as cars

Transformation

100

The four Nitrogenous bases (letters only, in  alphabetical order)

A, C, G, T

100
Name of the 5-carbon sugar in DNA

Deoxyribose

100
Name of the DUO when A is connected to T, or when C is connected to G

Base Pair

100

Name of the Nintendo home console that came out between the Nintendo 64 and the Nintendo Wii

Nintendo Gamecube

200

This scientist discovered the shape and basic structure of DNA, but died from cancer before she MIGHT have received a Nobel Prize, or shared it with another pair of scientists

Rosalind Franklin

200

Type of virus that infects bacteria

Bacteriophage

200

What did Dr. Franklin use to learn more about DNA? This could have also caused the cancer that killed her because she didn't wear enough lead protection

X-Rays

200

Type of cell WITHOUT a nucleus

Prokaryote

200

NASA's new satellite will track polar ice by using what?

Lasers

200

Today is Nintendo's 129th "birthday". They were not always a videogame company. What was their first product?

Playing cards

300

This scientist discovered the RULE that [A] = [T] and [C] = [G]

Edwin Chargraff

300

Process of copying DNA

Replication

300
The shape of DNA

double helix

300

Shape of the single chromosome in a Prokaryote cell

Circle or Ring

300

The name for the week of the season in which an NFL team does not have a game

Bye Week

300

Name of the original "finishing move" feature in the Mortal Kombat series

Fatality

400

This pair of scientists worked with viruses,DNA, and radioactivity to learn more about DNA.

(An odd hint for their names: Chocolate and Hunt)

Hershey and Chase

400

Type of cell WITH a nucleus

Eukaryote

400

The tips of a chromosome

Telomere

400

How does radiation damage DNA?

Causes/changes ions, which then act/combine differently

400

June 29, 2007 - The launch date of the first...

iPhone

400

The president of the United States of America, from January 2001 to January 2009

G. W. Bush

500
This pair of scientists built on the discoveries of Franklin and Chargraff, and solved the structure of DNA

Watson and Crick

500

The primary enzyme used in DNA replication

DNA polymerase

500

In prokaryote replication, how many points does replication start?

One

500

What are the three key roles of DNA?

Store, Copy, and Transmit Information

500

Name of the upcoming Fallout game

Fallout 76

500

Sirius XM radio just bought this major internet free/subscription music service

Pandora