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AP BIOLOGY DNA History & Structure
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Nucleic Acid Structure
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Complimentary Base Pairing
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Frederick Griffith
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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
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Oswald Avery
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Avery and group identified the transforming substance was DNA. His colleagues were McCarty and MacLeod.
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Alfred Hershey & Martha Chase
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Bacteriophage injecting its DNA into a bacterial cell
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Electron Microscope View
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Hershey – Chase Experiment
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Erwin Chargaff
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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.
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Rosalind Franklin
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DNA from a top view
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DNA from a side view
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James Watson & Francis Crick with their DNA model
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See the HYDROGEN bonds?
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