Dna Rna Protein Synthesis Bullshit Flashcards
What did griffith conduct his experiment with
To bacterial strains
What was Frederick Griffith trying to discover
What caused pneumonia
What was Griffiths hypothesis
Bacteria produced a toxin that caused pneumonia
What happened with all of Griffiths experiments
- The control group lived,
- the experimental died,
- the heat killed lived,
- and the heat killed plus the control died
What did Griffith conduct his experiment on
Mice
What did Griffith hypothesize after his experiment
That the heat killed bacteria past something to the harm the strain
What did Griffith called this process
Transformation
What did Griffith discover
The gene
What was Oswald Avery’s goal
Two to find what molecule was involved in the transformation
What did Avery do
It used to various enzymes to destroy different molecules within the bacteria
What did Avery discover
He discovered that DNA contains information passed from one generation to the other
What did Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase do
They worked with bacteriaphages to discover which part of the bacteriaphage entered the bacteria
What is a bacteriaphage and what does it consist of
It is a bacteria eater and it is a virus that attacks bacteria which consists of RNA surrounded by a protein coat
What did Hershey and Chase do
They grew with the virus is in cultures containing radioactive isotopes phosphorus 32 and sulfur 35 this way they could track the DNA and protein coat
What tracked the DNA and what tracked the protein coat
32P tract DNA and 35S tracked the protein coat
Hershey/chase determined what
That DNA entered the bacteria
What is a viruses purpose once it enters the host
Solely to reproduce
How does a virus reproduce
- First it takes over the bacteria and produces new virus parts.
- Then the bacteria splits open and hundreds of new viruses emerge to attach to more cells.
- It reproduces by taking over the cell and it doesn’t kill the host immediately.
the lytic cycle
The lytic cycle is the process by which a virus takes over a bacteria
The lysogenic cycle
- the virus injects DNA which merges with the bacterial DNA
- the bacteria then reproduces
- A stimulus then causes the cells to enter the lytic cycle.
What is DNA made of
It is a polymer made up of nucleotides
What are the nucleotides made of
A five carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and nitrogenous bases
What are the nitrogenous bases
Purines contained two carbon rings and are adenine and guanine
Pyrimidines contain one carbon ring and are cytosine and thymine
What did Erwin Chargoff discover
Percentages of cytosine and guanine are almost equal and DNA and the same for adenine and thymine
What was chargoffs rules
Adenine pairs with thymine and guanine pairs with cytosine
What does Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin discover
They worked with x-ray diffraction to discover the double helix shape of DNA