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DNA and RNA
DNA Scientists
DNA Structure
Replication
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3. They discovered the structure of DNA in 1953.

4. Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?

5. She produced an X-Ray diffraction image of
DNA – famously known as photo 51.
A 200

6. Who is Rosalind Franklin?

7. He discovered DNA – First isolated the compound
as a white powder he called nuclein in 1869.
A 300

8. Who is Friedrich Miescher?
A 300

9. He discovered that adenine and thymine occurred in
equal percentages for any DNA sample.
A 400

10. Who is Erwin Chargaff?
A 400

11. Their famous experiment allowed them to conclude
that DNA, not protein, was the hereditary compound in the cell.
It was called Waring blender experiment.ber
A 500

12. Who were Hersey and Chase?

13. It is the shape of the DNA molecule.
B 100

14. What is the double helix?

15. This is the correct name of the sugar in DNA.
B 200

16. What is deoxyribose?
B 200

17. They are the building blocks or monomers of DNA.

18. Nucleotides
B 300

19. These compounds make up the sides of the DNA
“twisted ladder.”
B 400

20. What are phosphates and deoxyribose sugars?

21. Hydrogen bonds form between the DNA bases
Hydrogen bonds form between the DNA bases. These bonds form as a result of an attraction between the following atoms: hydrogen and _________.
B 500

22. What is oxygen or nitrogen?
B 500

23. Replication refers to this happening to a DNA molecule.

24. What is copying or duplicating?

25. The enzyme that breaks the bonds between the DNA
bases is known as helicase.
The enzyme that adds
nucleotides has this name.
C 200

26. What is DNA polymerase?
C 200

27. DNA replication therefore is described by this term.
One DNA strand is original and one DNA strand is new in a replicated molecule.
DNA replication therefore is described by this term.
C 300

28. What is semi-conservative?

29. DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
C 400

30. Okazaki fragments are formed
along a DNA template strand, rather than the DNA
coding strand.
This template strand is also referred to by this name.
C 400

31. What is lagging strand?
C 400

32. The DNA molecule strand that runs in the 3’ – 5’
direction is known as the template strand.
The DNA molecule strand that runs in the 5’ – 3’ direction goes by this name.
C 500

33. What is the DNA coding strand?

34. Transcription produces this type of nucleic acid
(from the sequence of bases on the DNA template strand).
D 100

35. What is RNA?
D 100

36. Transcription occurs in this organelle.
D 200

37. What is the nucleus?
D 200

38. RNA polymerase moves to this area of the DNA
molecule at the beginning of transcription known as Initiation.
D 300

39. What is the promoter region?
D 300

40. RNA nucleotides are added during the Elongation phase until RNA polymerase reaches this part of DNA .
D 400

41. What is the terminator signal or terminator region?
D 400

42. While introns are cut out and exons are left in,
these parts are added to either end of RNA molecule and are thought to protect RNA from cytosol enzymes.
D 500

43. What are the mG cap and the Poly A tail.

44. The codons of mRNA match the ____________
of transfer RNAs.
E 100

45. What are the anticodons?

46. The building blocks of a protein are amino acids.
This is the chemical reaction that forms the peptide
bonds between them.
E 200

47. What is a condensation reaction (dehydration
synthesis)?
E 200

48. During translation, Initiation is followed by _________ and _________.

49. What is Elongation and Termination?

50. These are the specific types of nucleic acid molecules
involved in translation.
E 400

51. What are mRNA, tRNA & rRNA?

52. The start codon ________ codes for the amino acid
________.
E 500

53. What is AUG and Methionine?

54. DNA has the base Thymine, while RNA has this base
instead.
F 100

55. What is Uracil?
F 100

56. DNA has twice as many of these as RNA.

57. What are strands?
F 200

58. RNA contains this sugar.
F 300

59. What is ribose?
F 300

60. This RNA molecule has a looped shape that may resemble a clover.
It brings the amino acids to
the growing polypeptide chain during translation.
F 400

61. What is tRNA?
F 400

62. A ribosome is made up of these compounds.

63. What is protein and ribosomal RNA?
F 500

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65. The two DNA strands run in opposite directions based
on the orientation of their sugars. The strands are
described by this adjective.
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