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AP BIOLOGY DNA History & Structure. Nucleic Acid Structure.

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1 AP BIOLOGY DNA History & Structure

2 Nucleic Acid Structure

3 Complimentary Base Pairing

4 Frederick Griffith

5 FREDERICK GRIFFITH EXPERIMENT Living S cells (control) Living R cells (control) Heat-killed S cells (control) Mixture of heat-killed S cells and living R cells Mouse dies Living S cells are found in blood sample Mouse healthy Mouse dies RESULTS

6 Oswald Avery

7  Avery and group identified the transforming substance was DNA. His colleagues were McCarty and MacLeod.

8 Alfred Hershey & Martha Chase

9 Bacteriophage injecting its DNA into a bacterial cell

10 Electron Microscope View

11 Hershey – Chase Experiment

12 Erwin Chargaff

13 CHARGAFF’S RULE Adenine = Thymine (DNA) or Uracil (RNA) & Guanine = Cytosine If you know the % composition of 1, you can find the % composition of the other 3.

14 Rosalind Franklin

15 DNA from a top view

16 DNA from a side view

17 James Watson & Francis Crick with their DNA model

18 See the HYDROGEN bonds?


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