2. 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

3. $100 Question from H1 Because they were first found in the nucleus of a cell

4. $100 Answer from H1 How did nucleic acids get their name?

5. $200 Question from H1 A double helix

6. $200 Answer from H1 What is the structural shape of DNA?

7. $300 Question from H1 It carries a coded message from the DNA to the ribosomes.

8. $300 Answer from H1 What is m-RNA? What is messenger RNA?

9. $400 Question from H1 The basic unit of the polymer that we call a nucleic acid.

10. $400 Answer from H1 What is a nucleotide?

11. $500 Question from H1 The partner to a phosphate molecule and a nitrogenous base making up the basic unit of DNA.

12. $500 Answer from H1 What is a deoxyribose sugar?

13. $100 Question from H2 The two alternating components of DNA siderails

14. $100 Answer from H2 What are sugar and phosphate?

15. $200 Question from H2 The significant other for guanine

16. $200 Answer from H2 What is cytosine?

17. $300 Question from H2 The AAG, CCT or GTA of DNA are examples

18. $300 Answer from H2 What are triplet codons?

19. $400 Question from H2 The long name for DNA

20. $400 Answer from H2 What is deoxyribonucleic acid?

21. $500 Question from H2 The process by which new DNA is made in the nucleus

22. $500 Answer from H2 What is replication?

23. $100 Question from H3 A single helix molecule nicknamed RNA

24. $100 Answer from H3 What is ribonucleic acid?

25. $200 Question from H3 The type that is the anticodon for m-RNA

26. $200 Answer from H3 What is transfer RNA? What is t-RNA?

27. $300 Question from H3 Pairs with t-RNA coming to the ribosome to meet m-RNA

28. $300 Answer from H3 What is the amino acid?

29. $400 Question from H3 The process by which m-RNA is produced

30. $400 Answer from H3 What is transcription?

31. $500 Question from H3 The process by which the RNA code is read and turned into a long protein polymer of amino acids

32. $500 Answer from H3 What is translation?

33. $100 Question from H4 An Englishman and an American who first described the double helix structure of DNA

34. $100 Answer from H4 Who are Watson and Crick?

35. $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

36. $200 Answer from H4 Who is Mr. Cossette?

37. $300 Question from H4 The one contributor to DNA structure Who didn’t receive a Nobel Prize (Because of her death)

38. $300 Answer from H4 Who is Rosalind Franklin?

39. $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

40. $400 Answer from H4 Who was Rosalind Franklin?

41. $500 Question from H4 Franklin’s research partner in DNA X-ray who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for biochemistry with Watson and Crick

42. $500 Answer from H4 Who is Maurice Wilkins?

43. $100 Question from H5 It’s the NICE THING that t-RNA gives m-RNA when they meet at the ribosome

44. $100 Answer from H5 What is a complement?

45. $200 Question from H5 It is the RNA equivalent to the DNA base thymine

46. $200 Answer from H5 What is uracil?

47. $300 Question from H5 It is the shape of m-RNA

48. $300 Answer from H5 What is a helix?

49. $400 Question from H5 It is the kind of organism that doesn’t have DNA or RNA (remember the category)

50. $400 Answer from H5 What is “nothing”?

51. $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

52. $500 Answer from H5 What are enzymes?

53. 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

54. Final Jeopardy Answer Who is Sir Francis Crick?