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Structure
Replication
Electrophoresis
The Basics
Potpourri
100
The building blocks of DNA.
What are nucleotides?
100
An enzyme that unwinds the helix.
What is helicase?
100
The energy source that moves DNA through a gel.
What is electricity?
100
The organelle that contains DNA.
What is the nucleus?
100
The scientist that captured the first X-ray image of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
200
The famous description of the DNA molecule.
What is a double helix?
200
It is created "continuously."
What is the leading strand?
200
This charge of DNA determines which way the DNA fragments will move.
What is negative?
200
The "backbone" or "hand rails" of the DNA molecule.
What are phosphate and sugar?
200
The 2 scientists that figured out the structure of DNA.
Who are Watson and Crick?
300
The base pairing rules.
What is A bonds with T, G bonds with C?
300
Strand of DNA built in Okazaki fragments?
What is the lagging strand?
300
Determines how far a fragment will move through a gel.
What is the size of the fragment?
300
The variable part of a nucleotide that creates a sequence that determines our traits.
What are nitrogen bases?
300
The DNA molecule makes a complete 360 degree turn after this.
What is 10 base pairs?
400
Chemical bonds that connect the complementary strands.
What are hydrogen bonds?
400
The 2 strands of a DNA molecule run in opposite directions.
What is "anti-parallel"?
400
The material in which a gel is made.
What is agar?
400
Eukaryotes contain many linear versions of these, prokaryotes have one circular version.
What are chromosomes?
400
This scientists work with DNA was revolutionary at its time but he has since been shunned from the science community for his racist remarks.
Who is James Watson
500
Strong chemical bonds that connect adjacent nucleotides along 1 strand of DNA.
What are covalent bonds?
500
The direction in which DNA polymerase adds new nucleotides.
What is 5' to 3'?
500
The enzyme that cuts DNA into fragments of different sizes.
What is a restriction enzyme?
500
All the genes of a particular organism.
What is the genome?
500
The year that the DNA structure was discovered.
What is 1953?