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Nucleic Acids Flashcards

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Rosalind Franklin

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Discovered final piece of DNA structure research through x ray crystallography. Work was stolen by Watson and crick

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Watson and crick

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Scientists that discovered the structure of DNA and won a noble prize.

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DNA

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Deoxyribonucleic acid. Genetic information in a double helix shape

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RNA

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Ribonucleic acid. Messenger carrying information for protein synthesis

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Sugar phosphate backbone

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Outside of double helix made up of sugar and phosphates

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Carbon nitrogen bonds

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Connecting sugars to base pairs

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Carbon oxygen bonds

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Connecting sugar and phosphates to build the sugar phosphate backbone

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Hydrogen bonds

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Connects base pairs. Double for AT triple for CG

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Deoxyribose

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Sugar in DNA

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Ribose

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Sugar in RNA

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Nitrogen bases

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A T G C

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Adenine

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A component of DNA. Matches with thymine

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Thymine

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T component of DNA. Matches with adenine

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Guanine

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G component of DNA. Matches with cytosine

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Cytosine

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C component of DNA. Matches with guanine

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Chargaffs rules

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A matches with T

G matches with C

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Human genome project

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Scientific project to map the whole human genome

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Chromosomes

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Super coiled DNA wrapped around protein balls. 46 total

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Histone

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Protein balls that DNA wraps around to form chromosomes

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Chromatin

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DNA coiled around histone balls

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Nucleic acids

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Chain of base pairs that make up genetic information

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