Jeopardy Nucleic Acids DNARNA People Nothing Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from H1 Because they were first found in the nucleus of a cell

$100 Answer from H1 How did nucleic acids get their name?

$200 Question from H1 A double helix

$200 Answer from H1 What is the structural shape of DNA?

$300 Question from H1 It carries a coded message from the DNA to the ribosomes.

$300 Answer from H1 What is m-RNA? What is messenger RNA?

$400 Question from H1 The basic unit of the polymer that we call a nucleic acid.

$400 Answer from H1 What is a nucleotide?

$500 Question from H1 The partner to a phosphate molecule and a nitrogenous base making up the basic unit of DNA.

$500 Answer from H1 What is a deoxyribose sugar?

$100 Question from H2 The two alternating components of DNA siderails

$100 Answer from H2 What are sugar and phosphate?

$200 Question from H2 The significant other for guanine

$200 Answer from H2 What is cytosine?

$300 Question from H2 The AAG, CCT or GTA of DNA are examples

$300 Answer from H2 What are triplet codons?

$400 Question from H2 The long name for DNA

$400 Answer from H2 What is deoxyribonucleic acid?

$500 Question from H2 The process by which new DNA is made in the nucleus

$500 Answer from H2 What is replication?

$100 Question from H3 A single helix molecule nicknamed RNA

$100 Answer from H3 What is ribonucleic acid?

$200 Question from H3 The type that is the anticodon for m-RNA

$200 Answer from H3 What is transfer RNA? What is t-RNA?

$300 Question from H3 Pairs with t-RNA coming to the ribosome to meet m-RNA

$300 Answer from H3 What is the amino acid?

$400 Question from H3 The process by which m-RNA is produced

$400 Answer from H3 What is transcription?

$500 Question from H3 The process by which the RNA code is read and turned into a long protein polymer of amino acids

$500 Answer from H3 What is translation?

$100 Question from H4 An Englishman and an American who first described the double helix structure of DNA

$100 Answer from H4 Who are Watson and Crick?

$200 Question from H4 He has taught these same facts about nucleic acids at Post Falls High School for 33 years and still finds them exciting and interesting

$200 Answer from H4 Who is Mr. Cossette?

$300 Question from H4 The one contributor to DNA structure Who didn’t receive a Nobel Prize (Because of her death)

$300 Answer from H4 Who is Rosalind Franklin?

$400 Question from H4 She did important work with Watson and Crick (producing X-ray photos of helical DNA) but didn’t get the Nobel prize because she was deceased by that time

$400 Answer from H4 Who was Rosalind Franklin?

$500 Question from H4 Franklin’s research partner in DNA X-ray who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for biochemistry with Watson and Crick

$500 Answer from H4 Who is Maurice Wilkins?

$100 Question from H5 It’s the NICE THING that t-RNA gives m-RNA when they meet at the ribosome

$100 Answer from H5 What is a complement?

$200 Question from H5 It is the RNA equivalent to the DNA base thymine

$200 Answer from H5 What is uracil?

$300 Question from H5 It is the shape of m-RNA

$300 Answer from H5 What is a helix?

$400 Question from H5 It is the kind of organism that doesn’t have DNA or RNA (remember the category)

$400 Answer from H5 What is “nothing”?

$500 Question from H5 They are special protein molecules that are responsible for taking care of all of the details in replication, transcription, translation, and protein synthesis

$500 Answer from H5 What are enzymes?

Final Jeopardy A world-renowned biochemist, knight, and Nobel Laureate who visited EWU in 1986; applauded the questions of PFHS students; and gave his autograph to Mr. Cossette

Final Jeopardy Answer Who is Sir Francis Crick?