Nucleic Acid and Protein Synthesis

Question 1

Hershey-Chase experiment

Answer 1

series of experiments conducted in 1952 by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase

helped confirm that DNA is genetic material

Question 2

nucleotide

Answer 2

monomer of nucleic acids

combination of sugar, phosphate group, and nitrogenous base pair

Question 3

DNA

deoxyribonucleic acid

Answer 3

nucleic acid which stores all hereditary information of an animal

stores primary structures of proteins

Question 4

structure of DNA

Answer 4

double-helix

Question 5

nitrogenous bases of DNA

Answer 5

adenine

thymine

cytosine

guanine

Question 6

types of nitrogenous bases

Answer 6

purines (adenine and guanine)

pyrimidines (thymine and cytosine)

Question 7

nitrogenous base pairs of DNA

Question 8

RNA

ribonucleic acid

Answer 8

nucleic acid which carries protein-coding instructions from DNA to ribosomes