DNA BLAST

Question 1

Chemical composition of the nucleus

Nucleon was not solely a protein due to its high concentration of phosphorus

Answer 1

Friedrich Miescher

Question 2

Independently published papers on chromosome theory of inheritance
Genes are found at specific locations on chromosomes

NO DIRECT EVIDENCE

Answer 2

Walter Sutton and Theadore Boveri

Question 3

Fruit flies provided direct evidence on chromosome theory of inheritance

Answer 3

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Question 4

Heat-killed bacteria can transform a non-virulent strain — first evidence that genetic material is heat-stable chemical

Answer 4

Fredrick Griffith

Question 5

Identify Griffiths’s transforming agent as DNA

DNA is capable of transforming the non-virulent strain of bacteria

Answer 5

Oswald Avery, Maclyn McCarty, Colon MacLeoed

Question 6

DNA composition is species-specific
A=T
G=C

Answer 6

Erwin Chargaff

Question 7

Bacteriophages grown in radioactive medium- DNA enters cells as the transforming agent

Answer 7

Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase

Question 8

Spacial relationships of helical backbone
2 forms of DNA
Crystallography showed overall structure of DNA

Answer 8

Rosalind Franklin working in Maurice Wilkins’ lab

Question 9

Compile info known about DNA and publish the DOUBLE HELIX with outer sugar phosphate-backbone and paired based facing forward

Answer 9

James Watson and Francis Crick

Question 10

Transcription

Answer 10

RNA Synthesis
DNA -> RNA

Question 11

Translation

Answer 11

Protein Synthesis
RNA -> Protein

Question 12

Replication / DNA Synthesis is called

Answer 12

Semiconservative replication

Question 13

Seem

Question 14

Semiconservative replication

Answer 14

Replication where
2 strands of DNA that are genetically identical to the original strand

Question 15

Transcription = RNA synthesis
To create proteins, we first create

Answer 15

Messenger RNA / mRNA

Question 16

In RNA synthesis, Deoxyribose and Thymine are replaced by

Answer 16

Ribose and Uracil

Question 17

In translation / Protein synthesis,
The mRNA is converted into proteins by the

Answer 17

Ribosome (site of protein synthesis)

Question 18

3 letter codes

Answer 18

Codons

Question 19

MRNA is translated into __

Answer 19

amino acids / EACH CODON represents on animo acid

Question 20

GUA, UGC <- codons
Val, Cys - the names translated are__

Answer 20

Amino acids

Question 21

Amino acids together form a
Val-Cys-Lys-Ser-Leu

Answer 21

Polypeptide chain

Which FOLD into proteins

Question 22

Genetic code

Answer 22

Each codon will code for an amino acid

Question 23

Anime acids are __ of proteins

Answer 23

Monomers

Question 24

In replication you make a copy of the DNA

Answer 24

In Transcription you make mRNA to make a complementary copy of the DNA strand

Question 25

In translation you translate the generated mRNA into amino acids to make

Answer 25

Polypeptide chains

Question 26

Lysis Buffer

Answer 26

Break down cells in our solution

Question 27

Protease

Answer 27

Digest other proteins in the solution

Question 28

Ice cold Ethanol

Answer 28

Separate DNA and make it Visable

Question 29

Sickle Cell anemia

Answer 29

Folded cells block blood flow

Question 30

Replication

Answer 30

DNA Synthesis DNA -> DNA