Female scientist who did much of Watson and Crick's research.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
100
These are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
200
The 4 nitrogen bases of DNA
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?
200
The sequence of nucleotide bases on mRNA that would complement the following bases on DNA:
A T T C G C A G T
What is U A A G C G U C A
200
DNA is copied into a strand of RNA during this step of protein synthesis.
What is Transcription?
200
Rule that states that A-T and C-G bind together respectively.
What is Chargaff's Rule?
200
The bonds that link amino acids together.
What are peptide bonds?
300
Two things that happen in the nucleus involving DNA
What are DNA Replication and Transcription?
300
The full names for the three different types of RNA
What are messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA?
300
Anticodons and amino acids are found on this molecule.
What is transfer RNA?
300
First scientist to prove that material could move from one cell to another.
Who is Frederick Griffith?
300
These special types of protein that help to unzip DNA during DNA replication.
What are helicases?
400
The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block)
What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogen base?
400
The names of the 4 nitrogen bases of RNA.
What are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Uracil?
400
Groups of three bases on a mRNA molecule
What is a codon?
400
First to prove that it was DNA that caused the transformation in bacteria.
Who is Oswald Avery?
400
Occurs when there is some kind of change in the DNA sequence.
What is a mutation?
500
The reason why DNA replication happens.
What is to pass on genetic information to other cells during cell division?
500
Two differences between the STRUCTURE of RNA and DNA.
What is DNA is double stranded and RNA is single stranded? What is RNA has RIbose and DNA has Deoxyribose? What is RNA has the base Uracil and DNA has the base Thymine?
500
This is the anticodon for CAG
What is GUC?
500
Briefly explain the Hershey-Chase Experiment.
In some bacteriophages DNA was radioactively tagged with phosphorus isotope and in other bacteriophages the proteins were radioactive tagged with sulfur isotope. Observed to see which was transferred.
500
The name for long chains of amino acids that form during protein synthesis.