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Question 1

What was the procedure for the Griffith Experiment?

Answer 1

Give mouse deadly strain, give mouse weak strain, give mouse heat killed deadly strain, and give mouse heat killed and weak strains.

Question 2

What was the procedure for Avery, McLeod, and McCarty’s experiment?

Answer 2

Use the bacteria that killed the mice in Griffith’s experiment and combine it with different treatments to kill proteins, DNA, or RNA and test if transformation happens.

Question 3

What was the procedure for Hershey and Chase’s experiment?

Answer 3

Infect bacteria with phosphorus or sulfur. If phosphorus was in the shell then DNA was the answer. If the sulfur was found in the shell then it was proteins.

Question 4

What are the parts of a nucleotide?

Answer 4

sugar, base, phosphate

Question 5

What is the structure of DNA?

Answer 5

double helix

Question 6

What is similar and different about DNA and RNA?

Answer 6

Similar: phosphate, acg different: sugar, t/u

Question 7

If g is 35%, what is t?

Answer 7

Approximately 25%

Question 8

If C is 48%, what is A?

Answer 8

Approximately 2%