Important People
This scientist worked with bacteria and mice. Learned that even dead bacteria still be useful through a process that he called Transformation
Frederick Griffith
A process in which a bacteria is changed by information from another bacteria.
Sounds like it could be part of a movie about robots disguised as cars
Transformation
The four Nitrogenous bases (letters only, in alphabetical order)
A, C, G, T
Deoxyribose
Base Pair
Name of the Nintendo home console that came out between the Nintendo 64 and the Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Gamecube
This scientist discovered the shape and basic structure of DNA, but died from cancer before she MIGHT have received a Nobel Prize, or shared it with another pair of scientists
Rosalind Franklin
Type of virus that infects bacteria
Bacteriophage
What did Dr. Franklin use to learn more about DNA? This could have also caused the cancer that killed her because she didn't wear enough lead protection
X-Rays
Type of cell WITHOUT a nucleus
Prokaryote
NASA's new satellite will track polar ice by using what?
Lasers
Today is Nintendo's 129th "birthday". They were not always a videogame company. What was their first product?
Playing cards
This scientist discovered the RULE that [A] = [T] and [C] = [G]
Edwin Chargraff
Process of copying DNA
Replication
double helix
Shape of the single chromosome in a Prokaryote cell
Circle or Ring
The name for the week of the season in which an NFL team does not have a game
Bye Week
Name of the original "finishing move" feature in the Mortal Kombat series
Fatality
This pair of scientists worked with viruses,DNA, and radioactivity to learn more about DNA.
(An odd hint for their names: Chocolate and Hunt)
Hershey and Chase
Type of cell WITH a nucleus
Eukaryote
The tips of a chromosome
Telomere
How does radiation damage DNA?
Causes/changes ions, which then act/combine differently
June 29, 2007 - The launch date of the first...
iPhone
The president of the United States of America, from January 2001 to January 2009
G. W. Bush
Watson and Crick
The primary enzyme used in DNA replication
DNA polymerase
In prokaryote replication, how many points does replication start?
One
What are the three key roles of DNA?
Store, Copy, and Transmit Information
Name of the upcoming Fallout game
Fallout 76
Sirius XM radio just bought this major internet free/subscription music service
Pandora