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Bellwork: Tues. Nov. 29, 2016
1. Who is this a picture of? ________________ 2. What is this a picture of?________________ 3. What is the name of this picture? ____________ 4. who are these guys? ____________________________ 5. These 3 people are responsible for the discovery of __________ __________________________
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2. Notes: History of DNA and DNA Replication:
Chromosome
Nucleosome
DNA double helix
Coils
Supercoils
Eukaryotic chromosomes contain DNA wrapped around proteins called histones. The strands of nucleosomes are tightly coiled and supercoiled to form chromosomes.
Histones

3. 1928: Frederick Griffith discovered transformation: when a harmless bacteria strain changes permanently into the disease-causing strain).
Griffith Hypothesized: a “factor” (now know as DNA) must contain information that could change harmless bacteria into disease-causing ones.

4. British scientist Fredrick Griffith
studied bacteria that caused pneumonia.
He observed:
(1) Disease-causing strain of bacteria grew into smooth colonies on culture plates.
(2) The harmless strain
grew into colonies with
rough edges.

5. Oswald Avery repeated Griffith’s work to determine which molecule was most important for transformation.
Avery and his colleagues made an extract from the heat-killed bacteria that they treated with enzymes.

6. These enzymes destroyed proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and other molecules, including the nucleic acid RNA.
Transformation still occurred.
Oswald Avery and other scientists repeated the experiment using enzymes that would break down DNA.
When DNA was destroyed, transformation
didn’t occur. Oswald Avery and other
scientists concluded that DNA was the
“transforming factor.”

7. Avery and other scientists discovered DNA stores and transmits genetic information from one generation to the next.

8. Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase studied viruses grown in cultures containing radioactive isotopes of phosphorus-32 (32P) and sulfur-35 (35S).

9. Bacteriophages: viruses that infect bacteria
Bacteriophages: viruses that infect bacteria. composed of a DNA or RNA core and a protein coat.

10. Hershey and Chase “followed” the radioactive isotopes and found bacteriaphages injected only the 32P (attached to the DNA) into the bacteria
Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase used different radioactive markers to label the DNA and proteins of bacteriophages. The bacteriophages injected only DNA into the bacteria, not proteins. From these results, Hershey and Chase concluded that the genetic material of the bacteriophage was DNA.
Phage infects bacterium
No radioactivity inside bacterium
Bacteriophage with
sulfur-35 in protein coat

11. Watson and Crick discovered that hydrogen bonds can form only between certain base pairs—adenine and thymine, and guanine and cytosine.
This principle is called base pairing.

12. Hershey and Chase concluded the genetic material of the bacteriophage was DNA, not protein.
Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase used different radioactive markers to label the DNA and proteins of bacteriophages. The bacteriophages injected only DNA into the bacteria, not proteins. From these results, Hershey and Chase concluded that the genetic material of the bacteriophage was DNA.

13. Chargaff's Base Pairing Rules:
% guanine [G] and cytosine [C] are almost equal in any sample of DNA.
% adenine [A] and thymine [T] bases are almost equal in any sample of DNA.

14. X-Ray Evidence 
Rosalind Franklin used X-ray diffraction to get information about the structure of DNA.
She aimed an X-ray beam at concentrated DNA samples and recorded the scattering pattern of the X-rays on film.
This X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA was taken by Rosalind Franklin in the early 1950s. The X-shaped pattern in the center indicates that the structure of DNA is helical.
Photo credit: ©Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives/Peter Arnold, Inc.

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16. The Double Helix: Using clues from Franklin’s pattern,
James Watson and Francis Crick built a model of DNA that explained how DNA carried and copied information.
Watson and Crick's model of DNA was a –
double helix: two strands wound around each other like a spiral staircase shape.

17. They discovered the hydrogen bonds between the bases could be easily broken. 3 hydrogen bonds between G and C 2 hydrogen bonds between T and A

18. Hydogen bonding
Hydrogen bonds: relatively weak chemical forces that allow the two strands of the helix to separate.
The ability of the two strands to separate is critical to DNA’s functions.

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How does DNA copy itself with so few mistakes?
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21. DNA Replication
Replication: when a cell divides, it duplicates its DNA so each new cell has a complete set of DNA.
Replication: when DNA makes an identical copy of itself before mitosis.
The DNA molecule separates into two strands, then produces two new complementary strands

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How Replication Occurs
DNA replication is carried out by enzymes that “unzip” a molecule of DNA.
Helicase: unzips the double helix
DNA polymerase: creates complimentary strand
Hydrogen bonds between base pairs are broken and the two strands of DNA unwind.
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The structure that may play a role in regulating how genes are “read” to make a protein is the
coil.
histone.
nucleosome.
chromatin.
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26. Bellwork: Mon: Nov 22,2010 2. Which bases are which?
A DNA molecule separates, and the sequence GCGAATTCG occurs in one strand. Write out the original and complimentary Strand: GCGAATTCG
2. Which bases are which?
Draw them. How do you know:
3. What are these colored genes called? (hint: think of the video we watched “What Darwin Never Knew”)

27. Bellwork:old
1. If an organism has 3 chromosomes instead of the usual pair in a karyotype the genetic disorder is known as________________ 2. If an organism is missing one chromosome instead of the usual pair in a karyotype the genetic disorder is known as___________________________

28. Bellwork:old 2. Draw and label the 4 bases of DNA with the correct
A DNA molecule separates, and the sequence GCGAATTCG occurs in one strand. Write out the original and complimentary Strand: GCGAATTCG
2. Draw and label the 4 bases
of DNA with the correct
number of H bonds.
Be ready to explain
how you can tell them apart
and which bases pair up…