Wanted to know why certain bacteria caused pneumonia
Who is Frederick Griffith?
100
3 Steps of Transcription
What are Initiation, Elongation, and Termination?
100
Nucleotides on Transfer RNA
What are anti-codons?
200
Enzyme that "unzips" DNA strands in Replication
What is helicase?
200
3 Main Types of RNA
What is Transfer RNA, Messenger RNA, and Ribosomal RNA?
200
Adenine and Thymine pair , Guanine and Cytosine pair
What is Chargaff's rule?
200
System that provides the information needed to determine which amino acid has been coded for by the codons
What is the Genetic Code?
200
Place where mRNA goes after transcription
What is the cytoplasm?
300
Components of a nucleotide
What are a phosphate group, sugar, and nitrogen base?
300
If DNA = masterplan, then RNA = ?
What are blueprints?
300
Phosphates are on outside of DNA and DNA is double-helixed
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
300
Transcription
What is a system where DNA is used as a template in order to create Messenger RNA
300
Strand used to determine which amino acids will be needed
What is mRNA?
400
The nitrogen bases found in DNA
What are Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine?
400
Process most RNA is involved in
What is protein synthesis?
400
Studied viruses in order to see if protein or DNA in organism is responsible for transferring its information to other organisms or parts of that organism
Who are Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase?
400
Divided into two subunits filled with Ribosomal RNA and where protein synthesis takes place
What is a ribosome?
400
Goes back to get more amino acids after it drops the one it has off at mRNA
What is tRNA?
500
2 strands of DNA run in opposite directions
What are antiparallel DNA strands?
500
5 Main Differences between RNA and DNA
What is sugars, size, location, strandedness, and Uracil or Thymine
500
Believed that DNA was triple-helixed because of its density and was never told he was wrong
Who is Linus Pauling?
500
Nucleotides on mRNA
What are codons?
500
Energy needed to create bonds throughout this process