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What is DNA?
You've got that super "BASE"
Chemical Questions
Discovering DNA's shape
Base-Pairing Rules
100
DNA stands for ___________________________
What is deoxyribonucleic acid
100
DNA has how many nitrogenous bases?
What is four
100

These make up the rungs (steps) of the DNA "ladder"

What are bases

100
DNA has a specific shape called a _____________________, which can be described as a twisted ladder.
What is a double helix
100

Apples fall from the ____, Cars park in a ________.

What is Tree, Garage

200
DNA is which of following organic molecules? A) A lipid B) A carbohydrate C) A protein D) A nucleic acid
What is a nucleic acid
200
What is the name for the base represented by an (A)?
What is Adenine
200

A strand of DNA is supported by its "backbones". Which two molecules make up the backbone of DNA?

What are sugars and phosphates

200
True/False: DNA exists normally in your cells as a single-strand of nucleotides, having one backbone connected to nitrogenous bases.
What is False (DNA is double-stranded)
200
Base-pairing rules state that G always pairs with _____.
What is C (Cytosine)
300
A nucleic acid is made up of smaller units, or building blocks, called ____________________
What are nucleotides
300
What is the name for the base represented by a (G)?
What is Guanine
300

This is the term used to describe when one strand of DNA is matched up with the other strand.  Also means "they go together"

What is complimentary?

300
Thinking back to the twisted ladder analogy, what do the sides of the ladder represent?
What are the backbones of DNA (made up of sugars and phosphates)
300
If one side of a strand of DNA reads ATCGA, use the base-pair rules to come up with the sequence on the other, complementary strand of the same DNA. (Complementary means matching)
What is TAGCT Because... A=T T=A C=G G=C A=T
400
DNA nucleotides are made up of three components:
What are 1. A sugar 2. A phosphate 3. A nitrogen base (need all 3 to be correct)
400
What is the name for the base represented by a (C)?
What is Cytosine
400
This is the number of carbons found in deoxyribose sugar.

What is 5

400
What is the name of the scientist who extracted DNA from certain cells, took x-ray photographs of it, and saw an x-shaped picture?
Who is Rosalind Franklin (just Franklin is okay)
400
One strand of DNA reads GGACTTC, what is the sequence on the other, complementary strand?
What is CCTGAAG
500
The sugar in DNA is made up of 5 carbons, what is the specific name for this 5-carbon sugar in DNA? (Hint: the D in DNA)
What is deoxyribose
500
What is the name for the base represented by a (T)?
What is Thymine
500

This is the name of the bond that holds base pairs together (hint:  weak bond represented by the little white connectors)

What is Hydrogen bond

500
What were the names of the two scientists who first modeled the structure of a DNA molecule as a twisted, double-helix shape.
Who are Watson & Crick
500
Before anybody knew what the structure of DNA was, or even that bases paired up with each other, we only knew that there were sugars, phosphates, and the nitrogen bases A,G,C, and T in a DNA molecule. The name of the scientist who discovered that the % A equals the % T, and the % G equals the % C was? (Fact used to support the base-pair rules)
Who is Chargaff