DNA

DNA Structure

100

The type of Bond that hold Nitrogenous Bases together

Hydrogen Bonds

200

The type of bond that holds together the phosphate sugar backbone

Covalent Bonds

300

DNA strands run in this way compared to one another?

Antiparallel

400

The 3 basic components of a the subunit of DNA

Phosphate Group, Deoxyribose sugar, Nitrogenous Base

500

The backbone of DNA is made up of these two compounds?

Phosphate and Deoxyribse

Bases

100

Adenine will pair with what other nitrogenous base?

Thymine

200

Guanine will Pair with this other base?

Cytosine

300

This man came up with the rule that DNA bases will always pair up in certain fixed proportions

Chargaff

400

Mr. Johnson synthesized a DNA strand from a pneumonia strain of bacteria. He found that the strain was 22% Adenine. How much guanine is in that strand?

28%

500

Mr. Johnson synthesized a DNA strand from a pneumonia strain of bacteria. He found that the strain was 48% Guanine. How much Thymine is in that strand?

2%

DNA Replication

100

The name of the Enzyme that 'Unzips' the DNA strand

Helicase

200

The name of the Enzyme that adds nucleotides to the complementary DNA strand that is being constructed

DNA polymerase

300

DNA replicated during what phase of the cell cycle

Late Interphase, S Phase

400

The name of the enzyme that proofreads the newly formed DNA strand

DNA Polymerase

500

The lagging strand runs in an antiparallel direction compared to the leading strand. This is way the lagging strand must put together in chunks called?

Okazaki Fragments

Scientists

100

The name of the two scientists that discovered the double helix model?

Watson & Crick

200

The name of the scientist that used X-rays to photograph DNA's structure

Rosalind Franklin

300

The name of the scientist that discover transformer can take place in bacteria

Griffith

400

The name of the scientist that confirmed the notion that DNA was the genetic information of the cell

Avery

500

The name of the scientist that used bacteriophages to prove that DNA was the genetic material of the cell, not protein coats

Hershey & Chase

Miscellaneous

100

The type of cell that a bacteriophage infects

Bacteria

200

The ends of the chromosome that protect it from damage

Telomere

300

In class we create a DNA model using jellybeans, licorice, marshmallows, and toothpicks. What did the jellybeans represent

Phosphate Groups

400

Which combination of the disease strains killed Griffith's mice?

Live harmless, heat killed harmful

Live S, heat killed R strain

500

A DNA strand has a base sequence of TTAAGCATTACG, what is the correct complementary sequence to this?

AATTCGTAATGC