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Chapter 8--> From DNA and Protein Flashcards

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1
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Who found a ‘transforming principle’

A

Fredrick Griffith

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S form is deadly while the R form was

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Not deadly

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3
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What happened to the mouse injected with heat killed S bacteria?

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The mouse died

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Oswald Avery

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identified DNA as the transforming principle

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Avery isolated and…

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Purified Griffith’s transforming principle

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Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase confirmed that…

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DNA is the genetic material

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Hershey and Chase studied viruses that…

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infect bacteria, or bacteriophages

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Tagged DNA was found inside the bacteria;

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tagged proteins were not

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9
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DNA structure is the…

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same in all organisms

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10
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DNA is composed of what four types of nucleotides

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  1. Phosphate Group
  2. Deoxyribose Sugar
  3. Nitrogen-containing base
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What are the four nitrogen changing bases?

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1.Thymine
2.Adenine
3.Cytosine
4.Guanine

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12
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Double Helix is made up of a…

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Sugar-phosphate backbone on the outside with bases on the inside

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A=

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T

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14
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C=

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G

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15
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The backbone is connected by…

A

Covalent bonds

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16
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Pyrimidine (single ring) pairs with…

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Pyrimidine (double ring)

17
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The bases are connected by…

A

Hydrogen bonds

18
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A and G are what kind of bases?

A

Purine

19
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T and C are what kind of bases?

A

Pyrimidine

20
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Adenine and Guanine are composed of how many rings?

A

Two

21
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Thymine and Cytosine are composed of how many rings?

A

One

22
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DNA is what kind of acid?

A

Deoxyribinucleic Acid

23
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RNA is what kidn of acid?

A

Ribonucleic Acid

24
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What is DNA?

A

A self replicating material that is present in nearly all living organisms- carries genetic information

25
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What is RNA?

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A nucleic acid present in all living cells- is to act as the messenger carrying instructions from DNA for controlling synthesis of proteins

26
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How many strands does DNA have? What kind of helix is it?

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2 strands, double helix

27
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DNA is held together by what kind of bonds?

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Hydrogen

28
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What is the DNA nucleotide made up of?

A

Deoxyribise, phosphoric acid and nitrogen containing bases

29
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How do DNA molecules match up?

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