4.1 Study Guide Flashcards
1
Q
What disease was Griffith researching?
A
Pneumonia.
2
Q
What is the process of one strain of bacteria acquiring a “factor” from another?
A
Transformation.
3
Q
How to viruses reproduce?
A
Asexually.
4
Q
What did Hershey and Chase discover about which one holds genetic information between protein and DNA? How did they do this?
A
They found out DNA controlled genetic information and they found that out by making both radioactive in different tests and seeing which one ended up in the host cell.
5
Q
What are Chargaff’s Rules?
A
All Guanine must equal Cytosine roughly and all Adenine must equal Thymine roughly. A, G, C, T are all in relative amounts for each species.
