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Nucleic Acids I
Nucleic Acids II
Nucleic Acids III
Nucleic Acids IV
100
The structure that stores and transmits genetic information in cells.
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) ?
100
The five-carbon sugar found in DNA
What is deoxyribose ?
100
A term used to describe the shape of DNA
What is a double helix ?
100
The five-carbon sugar found in ribonucleic acid (RNA)
What is ribose ?
200
A scientist who studied the structure of DNA using X-rays
Who is Rosalind Franklin ?
200

DNA has one strand in one direction, and the other stand in the opposite direction. This is called ---

What is anti-parallel?

200
Weak bonds that hold nitrogenous bases together in base pairing
What are hydrogen bonds ?
200

These are the single rings found in DNA and RNA

What are pyrimidines?

300

A scientist who proposed that in any sample of DNA the percentage of A equals T and the percentage of C equals G

Who is Erwin Chargaff?

300

In DNA replication and Transcription, DNA will always be built in this direction.

What is 5'-->3'?

300

How many nucleotides are found in the section of DNA that wraps around the histones?

What is 146 ?

300

These are the double rings found in DNA and RNA?

What are purines?

400

These scientists who published a paper in 1953 suggesting the correct structure of DNA

Who were James Watson and Francis Crick ?

400
A nitrogenous base that pairs with thymine
What is adenine
400

The name of the structure responsible for the supercoiling of DNA into chromosomes. It consists of DNA wrapped around 8 proteins.

What is a nucleosome?

400
A type of RNA that combines with proteins to make ribosomes
What is rRNA (ribosomal RNA) ?
500

These two scientists discovered that DNA and NOT proteins are the genetic material

Who were Hershey and Chase ?

500

These were the two elements that were tagged with radioactive isotopes in Hershey and Chase's experiment.

What are phosphorus and sulfur?

500

The number of histone proteins in a nucleosome

What is 8?

500

If there is 22% A in DNA, what is the percentage of C?

What is 28%?