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Criteria for Hereditary Material 1)Found in nucleus 2)Arranged into chromosomes 3)Can control heredity 4)Self-replicating
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How did scientists show that the transforming material was DNA?
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Pneumoniae cell extracts contain protein, DNA, and RNA. How did scientists show that the transforming material was DNA?
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Avery, MacLeod and McCarthy 1)Mix dead S and Live R bacteria 2) Add protease 3) Add RNA-ase 4) Add DNA-ase
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Conclusion: DNA is the hereditary material! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hzUjx_oD8E Techno http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXbyJNRwjlg
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April 29, 2010 Ms. Simon Regents Biology Do Now: Turn in Lab Activity How did Griffiths show that bacteriophage DNA can “transform”?
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DNA Stored in the nucleus as chromosomes Each chromosome is a long strand of DNA Chromosomes are coiled using histones (proteins)
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What is the structure of DNA?
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DNA= Deoxyribose nucleic acid The monomers of DNA are nucleotides Each nucleotide contains: 1) phosphate (PO4) backbone 2) deoxyribose (5 Carbon sugar) 3) nitrogenous base
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Nitrogenous Bases Purines have two rings Pyrimidines have one ring
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Chargoff analyzed DNA of different species # Adenine= # Thymine # Guanine= #Cytosine Hypothesis: Maybe A is bound to T and G is bound to C
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Rosalind Franklin X-ray diffraction technique- allows her to take pictures of DNA’s structure Helix shape
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Watson and Crick Won the Noble Prize for discovering the structure of DNA Model of DNA is a double helix, two strands are wound around each other
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Double-helix model Ribose and Phosphate on the outside Nitrogenous bases pair as “rungs” of the ladder equidistant
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Nitrogenous bases are bound through weak hydrogen bonds Phosphates and riboses are covalently bonded Adenine and Thymine= 2 hydrogen bonds Guanine and cytosine= 3 hydrogen bonds
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Template Strand CTAGTTACACTAGTTACA GATCAATGTGATCAATGT Complementary Strand
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During DNA replication, DNA molecule separates into two strands. Two new complementary strands are formed.
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Replication is carried out by enzymes that unzip DNA molecule
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Helicase- enzyme that unwinds DNA
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DNA Polymerase DNA polymerase forms the new strand of DNA
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