Historical Stuff/DNA
DNA Replication
DNA Replication (but it's harder)
Chromosomes
Genetic Engineering
100

The three components of a nucleotide.

What is a nitrogenous base, the sugar deoxyribose, and a phosphate group?

100

Base pairing rules. (give one) 

What is adenine -> thymine? 

What is Guanine -> cytosine ?


100

Y-shaped region where DNA strands are elongating

What is a replication fork ?
100

They’re protiens responsible for DNA packing 

What are Histones?

100

The direct manipulation of genes.

What is genetic engineering?

200

A bacteriophage.

What is a type of virus that infects bacteria?

200

Scientists that concluded semiconservative model. 

Who is Meselson and Stahl ?

200

DNA polymerases can only add nucleotides to what end ? 

What is 3' prime end ?

200

Certain protiens cause the chromatin to tightly pack together 

What is known as supercoil?

200

The determination of the order of nucleotide bases in gene or DNA synthesis.

What is DNA Sequencing?

300

The scientist that used X-ray crystallography to study molecular structure of DNA that Watson and Crick ultimately stole to find the 3D structure of DNA.

Who was Rosalind Franklin?

300

Mandatory elongation of DNA

what is 5' to 3' prime ?

300

Sequence changes that may become permanent, passing on to next generations are called 

what are mutations ?

300

A Euchromatin

What is accessible to the machinery in the cell?

300

The first step of the PCR, the heating up of DNA to separate the two strands.

What is denaturation?

400

Given that the DNA of a certain fly species consists of 27.3% adenine and 22.5% guanine, use Chargaff’s rules to deduce the percentages of thymine and cytosine.

What is the DNA of this fly species should consist of about 27.3% thymine and 22.5% cytosine.

400

Segments of strands containing damage is cut out of DNA by

What is Nuclease ?

400

New DNA strand starts from 3’ end of

What is a RNA primer ?

400

The outer strand 

What part of the the double helix is negatively charged ?

400

The 2 main and useful purposes of gene cloning.

What are amplification (amplifying) and protein production?

500

Change in genotype and phenotype  due to assimilation of foreign DNA

What is transformation?

500

DNA polymerase synthesize what strand continuously

What is a leading strand ?

500

Nucleotide added to template consist of sugar attached to base and 3 phosphate groups called

What is dATP ?

500

A looped domain

What is further scaffold to create a metaphase chromosome?

500

Fragments that can form hydrogen bonds with complementary sticky ends that have cut by the same enzyme.

What are sticky ends?