History of DNA
Vocabulary
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100

Scientist that discovered DNA could exist in wet or dry form

Who was Rosalind Franklin?

100

Make up the rungs of DNA

What are nitrogen bases?

100

CCGGTA

What is GGCCAT?

200

Franklin made her discovery in this year

What was 1951?

200

Components of DNA

What are nitrogen bases, phosphate, and deoxyribose sugar?

200

ACTTAC

What is TGAATG?

300

Scientists who later made a more advance DNA discovery

Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?

300

Nitrogen base not found in DNA

What is uracil?

300

CATTACGAT

What is GTAAGCTA?

400
Determines a variety of traits

What are proteins?

400

Bases found in DNA

What are adenine,thymine, guanine, and cytosine?

400

CCGGAATTGAC

GGCCTTAACTG

500

Appearance of DNA

What is a twisted ladder?

500

Process in which DNA makes an identical copy of itself

What is DNA replication?

500

TCTCCAC

AGAGGTG