DNA Structure
Watson and Crick used this term to describe the shape of DNA
What is a double helix?
This process by which DNA is copied during the cell cycle
What is replication?
This was discovered in 1953 by Watson and Crick.
What is DNA?
What is DNA?
What are Amino Acids?
The sugars and the Phosphates
What is the "backbone of a DNA molecule"?
A group of enzymes that bond new nucleotides together
What is DNA Polymerases
Won the Nobel prize in 1962 for their model of the DNA double helix.
James Watson and Francis Crick
The sugar in DNA.
What is deoxyribose?
The type of bond that holds bases together in the double helix
What is a hydrogen bond?
This is the first step in the replication of one DNA molecule
What is the unwinding of DNA?
Concluded that DNA is responsible for transformation in bacteria.
Who is Oswald Avery?
Repairing units of DNA.
What are Nucleotides?
a single strand of DNA is made to create the messenger DNA.
What is Transcription?
A phosphate, a nitrogenous base, and a sugar
What are the three parts of a nucleotide?
The protein which the DNA double helix winds around so that DNA can be super-coiled
What are histomes?
process of copying DNA
What is DNA Replication?
A disease that results in the change in shape of hemoglobin red blood cells due to point mutation.
What is Sickle Cell Anemia?
He is credited with the discovery that the amount of G's was equal to the amount of C's in a DNA sample.
Who is Erwin Chargaff?
Insight that a single strand of DNA can serve as a template or pattern for a new strand
What is the realization of Watson and Crick
While working with bacteria, discovered that genetic material can be transferred from one cell to another, which is bacterial transformation
Who is Fredrick Griffith
Alternating sugars and phosphates.
What are the sides of a DNA ladder?
Long chains of amino acids that form during protein photosynthesis.
What are Polypeptides?