DNA Structure
DNA Replication
Transcription
Translation
The Code
DNA Pioneers
100
Best known as the discoverers of the double helix they committed data larceny and failed to acknowledge the scientist who obtained the data that identified the structure of DNA. Who are they and what scientist did they rip off?
Who are Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin
100
In eukaryotes this occurs during what phase of the cell cycle?
What is the "S" phase
100
The enzyme that initiates transcription is ....
What is RNA polymerase
100
What stage in transcription does the ribosome complex bind to the start codon on mRNA.
What is initiation
100
Define "codon"
What is a three nitrogen base sequence on DNA or RNA 
that corresponds to an amino acid.
100
Photograph 51 was obtained using a photographic technique called
X-Ray crystallography or X-Ray diffraction
200
The monomer building blocks of DNA are ...
What are nucleotides
200
The enzyme that directs the synthesis of new strands of DNA is called ....
What is DNA polymerase
200
In eukaryotes RNA synthesis occurs in this location.
What is the nucleus
200
It has an anticodon and an amino acid binding site.
What is tRNA
200
What are the nitrogen bases in the "start" codon.
What are "AUG".
200
The scientists who authored the 1953 Nature Paper: Molecular Structure for Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Who are the photograph 51 plumbers, James "Bigot" Watson and Francis "Klepto"
Crick
300
The molecules that make up the backbone of each DNA strand are _____ and _____.
What are deoxyribose, (sugar), and phosphate
300
When DNA is replicated in eukaryotes this process is initiated at several of these positions on DNA. These positions are called ...
What are replication bubbles (Replication forks is acceptable too.)
300
Termination occurs when RNA polymerase arrives at this codon.
What is the "stop" codon.
300
A growing chain of amino acids is a...
What is a polypeptide
300
There are three "stop" codons. Name one of them.
What are: UAG, UAA, and UGA
300
In his experiments with rats and rough and smooth bacteria discovered that DNA is the "Transforming Principle".
Who is Fred Griffith
400
The bonds which join A-T and C-G are known as ____ bonds.
What are hydrogen bonds
400
Each new strand of DNA is synthesized in a ___ to ___ direction.
What are 5' to 3'
400
RNA is synthesized in this direction.
What is 5' to 3'
400
When the last tRNA departs the mRNA releasing the polypeptide into the cytoplasm of the cell is called...
What is termination
400
The DNA code is "redundant". Why is this true?
What is that there are 64 possible codons and only 20 amino acids. Therefore more than one codon can represent a given amino acid.
400
In their experiments with radioactive nucleotides they demonstrated that DNA replication results in two identical DNA molecules, each with one parental strand and one newly synthesized strand.
Who were Matthew "Mad Dog"Meselson and Franklin "The Truth" Stahl
500
Nitrogen bases that have a "double ring" structure, i.e., A, G are called ____. Nitrogen bases that have a "single ring" structure are called _____.
What are purines and pyrimidines.
500
At a replication fork two new strands of DNA are concurrently synthesized. One of these strands grows toward the fork, the other away from the fok in smaller fragments. These strand that grows toward the fork is called the ______ strand and the strand that grows away from the fork is called the _____ strand.
What are "leading" and "lagging"
500
mRNA processing is the removal of non coding _____ sequences.
What are "introns"
500
When the ribosome moves to the next codon.
What is translocation.
500
They conducted experiments using Neurospora mold and minimal media and discovered the DNA code.
Who were George "The Fungus King" Beadle and Edward "I Like Bread" Tatum
500
He proved that in any given length of a double stranded DNA molecule that the quantities of A = the quantities of T and the quantities of C = the quantities of G.
Who was Erwin "The Mole" Chargaff