Chapter 16 The Molecular Basis Of Inheritance Flashcards
Who introduced an elegant double-helical model for the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid?
James Watson and Francis Crick
In 1953
Substance of inheritance?
DNA
Morgan’s group showed that genes are located on chromosomes
What become candidates for the possible genetic material?
DNA and protein
The role of DNA in heredity was first discovered by studying….
Bacteria and the viruses that infect them
The discovery of the genetic role of DNA began with research by ….
Fredrick Griffith in 1928
When Griffith mixed heat-killed remains of the pathogenic strain with living cells of the harmless strain….. what happened?
Some of the living harmless strains become pathogenic
This is called transformation*
When there is a change in phenotype and genotype due to assimilation of foreign DNA
Transformation
Who announced the transforming substance was DNA?
Oswald Avery, Maclyn McCarty, and Colin MacLeod
More evidence of DNA as the genetic material came from studies of…..
A virus that infects bacteria
These are called bacteriophages or phases
A virus that infects bacteria is called?
Bacteriophages or phages
They are widely used in genetics research
Who proved that one of the two components of T2 (DNA or protein) enters an E. coli cell during infection?
Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
What are Charagaff’s rules?
Base pairings are different among species
The amount of and ratio of base pairings is equal
Who used X-Ray crystallography to study the molecular structure of DNA?
Who produced the image of the DNA molecule using this technique?
Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin
Franklin
Franklins X-Ray crystallography images of DNA enabled _________ to deduce the width of helix and the spacing of the nitrogenous bases
The width suggested that the DNA molecule was made up of two stands, forming a double helix
Watson
What is the backbone of DNA?
Sugar phosphate backbone
Bases are on the _____ of DNA?
Inside
DNA is stabilized by?
Hydrogen bonds
What are the three components of DNA?
Nitrogenous base (purines or pyrimidines)
Phosphate group
Pentose sugar (deoxyribose)
In DNA replication, the parent molecule unwinds, and _________ daughter strands are built based on base pairing rules
Two new
What were the three alternative models of DNA replication?
Semi-conservative (this one is correct)
Conservative
Dispersive
Who’s experiment supported the semi conservative model?
Meselson and Stahl
Explain Meselson and Stahls model for replication.
Old nucleotides labels with a heavy isotope of nitrogen, while any new nucleotides were labeled with a lighter isotope
First replication produced a band of hybrid DNA, eliminating the conservative model
The second replication produced both light and hybrid DNA, eliminating the dispersive model
Backbone of nucleotides?
Nitrogen
Replication begins at special sites called _______________, where the two DNA strands are separated, opening up a replication “bubble”
Origins of replication
How many sites of origin may a eukaryotic chromosomes have?
Hundreds or even thousands
Replication proceeds in what direction from each origin?
Both directions
At the end of each replication bubble is a …..
Replication fork, a Y-shaped region where new DNA strands are elongating
Are enzymes that untwist the double helix at the replication forks
Unzips or breaks hydrogen bonds
Helicases