DNA TEST Flashcards
Complementary Base to Adenine
Thymine
Franklin and Wilkins
Used X-ray crystallography to develop images of DNA
What does DNA stand for
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
What is the sugar found in DNA
Deoxyribose Sugar
ATTCCGGTAG
TAAGGCCATC
What category of Organic Compound does DNA belong to?
Nucleic Acid
3 components of a nucleotide
Hydrogenous base, Deoxyribose, Phosphate
Purines
Two ringed nitrogen base; adenine and guanine
Pyrimidines
Single ringed nitrogen base, cytosine and thymine
Nucleotide
A building block of DNA, consisting of a five-carbon sugar, a nitrogenous base, and a phosphate group.
Deoxyribose sugar
sugar used in DNA to make up the “backbone”
Complementary Base to Cytosine
Guanine
Double Helix
shape of the DNA molecule
ATT TAA ACC GAG
TAA ATT TGG CTC
Name a purine
Adenine and Guanine
Name a pyrimidine
cytosine, thymine
how many hydrogen bonds are between Adenine and Thymine
2
how many hydrogen bonds are between Cytosine and Guanine
3
Who Developed an accurate model of DNA
Watson and Crick
Amino Acids
Monomer of proteins
Gene
A section of DNA that codes for a trait
Deoxyribose
A five-carbon sugar that is a component of DNA nucleotides
Chargaff’s Rule
A bonds with T, G bonds with C
DNA Back Bone
Made from Phosphate and Deoxiribose
Experiment with mouse and pneumonia showed the DNA was the transforming agent
Frederick Griffith
Experiment showed that DNA was transferred when phages infected bacteria
Hershey-Chase
Antiparallel
Describes how each side of the DNA molecule is arranged
