DNA Structure History of DNA Molecules of replication Transcription Miscellaneous
RNA DNA History… Again Bio- technology MutationsPotpourri F.J.
The Twisted structure of DNA. 100 Answer
What is the double helix? 100
The nucleotide is made of these three parts. 200 Answer
What are the nitrogen base, the sugar, and the phosphate? 200
The name for DNA coiled up during cell reproduction. 300 Answer
What is a chromosome? 300
A section of DNA that codes for a specific trait. 400 Answer
What is a gene? 400
This was originally believed to contain genetic information. 100 Answer
What is protein? 100
They discovered that DNA was the genetic material. 200 Answer
Who were Hershey and Chase? pt bonus- how did they do this? Labeled DNA with Radioactive Phosphorus, then looked to see where the phosphorus was
Watson and Crick did this. 300 Answer
What is discover the double helix? 300
Franklin and Wilkins created pictures of DNA using this process. 400 Answer
What is a X-ray defraction? 400
The molecule that splits DNA for replication. 100 Answer
What is helicase? pt bonus: What molecule keeps the strands apart? Single-strand binding proteins
This molecule joins short strands of DNA. 200 Answer
What is ligase? 200
DNA polymerase does this. Answer
What is add nucleotides to the new strand during replication? 300
This molecule makes short sections of RNA to start transcription. 400 Answer
What is DNA Polymerase I? 400
The section of mRNA removed after transcription. 100 Answer
What are introns? 100
The type of cell that has both chromosomes from the homologous pair. 200 Answer
What is a diploid cell? 200
The three useless cells made in egg cell meiosis. 300 Answer
What are polar bodies? pt Bonus: What is it called?
The process in meiosis that splits up the homologous pair. 400 Answer
What is meiosis I? 400
The three nucleotides found on a molecule of tRNA. 100 Answer
What is an anticodon? 100
Transcription takes place here. 200 Answer
Where is the nucleus? 200
What “DNA” and “RNA” are named for. 300 Answer
What are the sugars? 300
A point mutation that causes no problems. 400 Answer
What is a silent mutation? 400
3 Differences between DNA and RNA 200 Answer
What are; 1. different sugars, 2. A-T, A-U 3. Nucleus vs Nucleus + Cytoplasm 4. DNA much larger 5. Single strand vs double helix 200
The molecule that ribosomes bind to in translation. 400 Answer
What is mRNA? 400
This molecule that transfers amino acids to the ribosomes 600 Answer
What is tRNA? 600
This enzyme (catalyst) helps transcription occur in the nucleus. 800 Answer
What is RNA polymerase? 800
This was determined to be the cause of transformation by Griffith in his experiments with mice 200 Answer
What is DNA (moving from one strand to another)? 200
He determined that the amount of adenine = thymine and cytosine = guanine. 400 Answer
Who is Erwin Chargaff? 400
Avery, McLeod, and McCarthy purified Various chemicals in bacteria and Supported this claim of Griffith’s. 600 Answer
What is DNA as the transforming property (Genetic material). 600
Meselson and Stahl proposed this Theory stating that each strand of DNA created during replication in part new strand and part original. 800 Answer
What is the semiconservative model of replication? 800
The ingredients needed for a PCR. 200 Answer
What are heat, nucleotides, DNA, DNA polymerase, and primers? 200
Molecules that cut DNA in specific places, giving sticky ends. 400 Answer
What are restriction enzymes? 400
An agent used to transfer DNA from a solution to a living cell (i.e. a plasmid). 600 Answer
What is a vector? 600
The number of restriction enzymes used in genetic recombination and why. 800 Answer
What are 1 because it cuts in the same spot and creates the same sticky ends 800
An addition or subtraction of a nucleotide that causes the remaining nucleotides to shift up or down. 200 Answer
What is a frameshift mutation? 200
A point mutation that causes a change in the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide. 400 Answer
What is a missense mutation? 400
The three nucleotides that code for a specific amino acid when transcribed and translated. 600 Answer
What are codons? 600
A frameshift mutation that would only change 1 amino acid in a polypeptide 800 Answer
What are insertions or deletions of 3 nucleotides. 800
The base pair that is different between DNA and RNA. 200 Answer
What is Thymine vs Uracil 200
The process that creates a DNA fingerprint. 400 Answer
What is gel electrophoresis? 400
The cause of DNA movement in gel electrophoresis. 600 Answer
What is the electrical charge (DNA moves towards the positive end?) 600
The sequence of amino acids that tells the RNA polymerase where to start transcribing. 800 Answer
What is a promoter? 800
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