DNA

Question 1

Discovered transformation in bacteria that cause pneumonia

Answer 1

Griffith

Question 2

Learned that DNA is the material responsible for transformation

Answer 2

Avery

Question 3

Studied bacteriophages and learned that DNA and not protein is the hereditary material of viruses

Answer 3

Chase/Hershey

Question 4

Discovered the structure of DNA and learned from that how it replicated

Answer 4

Watson/Crick

Question 5

Took x-ray photos of DNA

Answer 5

Franklin

Question 6

Double-ringed nitrogen bases

Answer 6

Purine

Question 7

SIngle-ringed nitrogen bases

Answer 7

Pyrimidine

Question 8

An enzyme that proof reads and adds nucleotides to exposed strands of a DNA template

Answer 8

DNA polymerase

Question 9

The sugar in DNA

Answer 9

Deoxyribose

Question 10

The description of DNA replication that results in new molecules comprising one old strand and one new strand

Answer 10

Semi-conservative replication

Question 11

The enzyme that breaks hydrogen bonds during DNA replication

Answer 11

Helicase

Question 12

A virus-eating bacteria

Answer 12

Bacteriophage

Question 13

A change in the nucleotide sequence DNA

Answer 13

Mutation

Question 14

The three parts of a nucleotide…

Answer 14

Sugar, phosphate, nitrogen base

Question 15

How is DNA replication related to cancer?

Answer 15

When an error is made in replication, the DNA may be damaged, The damage may lead to rapidly dividing cells that produce tumors (cancer)