DNA Structure
In DNA, Adenine always bonds with _____.
What is Thymine?
This type of mutation is when a base is swapped for another base in the DNA strand.
What is a substitution?
The scientists that physically modeled DNA molecule and won the award for it
Who are Watson and Crick?
The rungs of the DNA ladder are made of these.
What are bases?
This is the shape DNA is described as.
What is double helix?
The type of mutation shown below:
AAT-ACC-GAA-TTT
AAT-ACC-GGA-TTT
What is a substitution?
The "unsung hero" of DNA discovery
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This is where DNA is located in a cell.
What is the nucleus?
These two things make up the "backbone" or sides of DNA.
What are phosphate and sugar (deoxyribose)?
If a mutation does occur, these are the 3 outcomes.
What are harmful, neutral, and beneficial?
What did Watson and Crick win?
The Nobel Prize
The type of bonds that hold the nitrogenous bases together in a DNA strand
What are hydrogen bonds?
This is the name of the building blocks of DNA (it contains three molecules).
What is nucleotide?
A type of mutation that would increase the chances that an organism would survive.
What is a beneficial mutation?
What was the name of the Scientist who discovered that Adenine was always paired with Thymine and Guanine was always paired with Cytosine?
During DNA replication, the complementary DNA strand for ACGTCC would be:
What is TGCAGG?
The 3 parts of a nucleotide.
What is phosphate, sugar, nitrogen base.
A type of mutation in which bases are deleted or added resulting in the entire code shifting.
What is frame shift?
What did Watson and Crick see of Rosalind Franklin that made them realize DNA was a double helix?
They noticed her picture had a cross shape
If a DNA strand had 40% cytosine, how much adenine would it have?
What is 10%?