Genetic Scientists
DNA
DNA Scientists
Double Helix
ETC
100
Used strains of bacteria that caused pneumonia to test genetic transfer and infection
Who is Griffith?
100
The three roles of DNA
What stores, copies and transmits?
100
Chargaff's rule
What is [A]=[T] and [G]=[C]
100
The name given to the DNA ladder
What is the double helix?
100
The ability of one organisms to directly take in the genetic material of another without any type of sexual reproduction
What is transformation
200
The two strains of bacteria used by Griffiths in his genetic studies
What are the s-strain and the r-strain
200
The building blocks of DNA and RNA
What are nucleotides?
200
Used x-ray diffraction to determine the shape of DNA
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
200
The name given for the orientation of the double helix's backbones
What is antiparallel?
200
The naturally occurring organism that preys on bacteria, transferring its DNA into it to use it as a production factory for itself
What is a bacteriophage?
300
Used enzymes to destroy every component within the cell to narrow down what controlled genetic inheritance
who is Avery?
300
The four bases found in DNA (full names)
What Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine
300
The disease that Rosalind Franklin died from that was probably due to her experiments
What is cancer?
300
The strand of DNA that requires several polymerase molecules to make the complementary strand of DNA
What is the lagging strand?
300
The enzyme that unzips the DNA
What is helicase?
400
Used radioactivity to label parts of the bacteriophages to see which part was responsible for genetic inheritance
Who are Hershey-Chase?
400
The type of bond that the bases share between eachother
What is a covalent bond?
400
Based their idea of the double helix shape of DNA on data found by another researcher
Who are Watson and Crick?
400
The name of the enzyme that adds the complementary base on to the growing DNA strands
What is polymerase?
400
The enzyme that is specifically used to duplicate the ends of the chromosomes that are thicker and harder to replicate
What is telomerase?
500
The strain of bacteria that Griffith worked with that caused transformation of harmless bacteria into deadly ones
What is the smooth strain?
500
The three components of a nucleotide
What are a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrongenous base?
500
The award that Watson and Crick won based on the work that they did that was based on Rosalind Franklin's work
What is the Nobel Prize?
500
The shape of Prokaryotic DNA
What is circular?
500
The radioactivity used by Hershey-Chase used to label the DNA in their experiments
What is Phosphorus 32?