4.1 Study Guide

Question 1

What happened when the smooth strain of the virus entered the mouse

Answer 1

The mouse died

Question 2

What happened when the rough strain of the virus entered the mouse

Answer 2

The mouse lived

Question 3

What happened when the heat killed smooth strain of the virus entered the mouse

Answer 3

The mouse lived

Question 4

What happened when the rough strain and the heat killed smooth strain of the virus entered the mouse

Answer 4

The mouse died

Question 5

What did Griffith call the process of bacteria acquiring a factor from another bacteria

Answer 5

Transformation

Question 6

Which molecule is responsible for transformation

Answer 6

DNA, because it was only stopped once because the DNA was destroyed.

Question 7

Why does a virus infect genetic material into a host cell

Answer 7

That is how they reproduce

Question 8

If a species has approximately 45% C what do the rest of the bases have

Answer 8

G=45%
A=5%
T=5%