DNA Structure
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The Twisted structure of DNA.100
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What is the double helix?100
The nucleotide is made of these three parts.
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What are the nitrogen base, the sugar, and the phosphate?
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The name for DNA coiled up during cell reproduction.
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What is a chromosome?300
A section of DNA that codes for a specific trait.
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What is a gene?400
This was originally believed to contain genetic information.
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What is protein?100
They discovered that DNA was the genetic material.
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Who were Hershey and Chase?200
100 pt bonus- how did they do this?
Labeled DNA with Radioactive Phosphorus, then looked to see
where the phosphorus was
Watson and Crick did this.300
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What is discover the double helix?300
Franklin and Wilkins created pictures of DNA using this process.
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What is a X-ray defraction?400
The molecule that splits DNA for replication.
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What is helicase?100
100pt bonus: What molecule keeps the strands apart?
Single-strand binding proteins
This molecule joins short strands of DNA.
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What is ligase?200
DNA polymerase does this.
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What is add nucleotides to the new strand during replication?
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This molecule makes short sections of RNA to start transcription.
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What is DNA Polymerase I?400
The section of mRNA removed after transcription.
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What are introns?100
The type of cell that has both chromosomes
from the homologous pair.200
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What is a diploid cell?200
The three useless cells made in egg cell meiosis.
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What are polar bodies?300
100 pt Bonus: What is it called?
The process in meiosis that splitsup the homologous pair.
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What is meiosis I?400
The three nucleotides found on a molecule of tRNA.
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What is an anticodon?100
Transcription takes place here.200
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Where is the nucleus?200
What “DNA” and “RNA” are named for.
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What are the sugars?300
A point mutation that causes no problems.
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What is a silent mutation?400
3 Differences between DNA and RNA
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What are; 1. different sugars,2. A-T, A-U3. Nucleus vs Nucleus + Cytoplasm4. DNA much larger5. Single strand vs double helix 200
The molecule that ribosomes bind to in translation.
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This molecule that transfers amino acids to the ribosomes
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This enzyme (catalyst) helps transcription occur in the nucleus.
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What is RNA polymerase?800
This was determined to be the cause of transformation by Griffith
in his experiments with mice200
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What is DNA (moving from one strand to another)?
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He determined that the amount of adenine = thymine and
cytosine = guanine.400
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Who is Erwin Chargaff?400
Avery, McLeod, and McCarthy purified Various chemicals in bacteria and Supported this claim of Griffith’s.
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What is DNA as the transforming property
(Genetic material).600
Meselson and Stahl proposed this Theory stating that each strand of
DNA created during replication in part new strand and part original.
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What is the semiconservative model of replication?
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The ingredients needed for a PCR.200
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What are heat, nucleotides, DNA, DNA polymerase, and primers?
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Molecules that cut DNA in specific places, giving sticky ends.
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What are restriction enzymes?400
An agent used to transfer DNA from a solution to a living cell
(i.e. a plasmid).600
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What is a vector?600
The number of restriction enzymes used in genetic recombination and why.
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What are 1 because it cuts in the same spot and creates
the same sticky ends800
An addition or subtraction of a nucleotide that causes the
remaining nucleotides to shift up or down.
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What is a frameshift mutation?200
A point mutation that causes a change in the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide.
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What is a missense mutation?400
The three nucleotides that code for a specific amino acid when
transcribed and translated.600
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What are codons?600
A frameshift mutation that would only change 1 amino acid
in a polypeptide 800
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What are insertions or deletions of 3 nucleotides.
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The base pair that is different between DNA and RNA.
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What is Thymine vs Uracil200
The process that creates a DNA fingerprint.
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What is gel electrophoresis?400
The cause of DNA movement in gel electrophoresis.
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What is the electrical charge (DNA moves towards
the positive end?)600
The sequence of amino acids that tells the RNA polymerase
where to start transcribing.800
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What is a promoter?800
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