Unit 4 (part 1&2) DNA Flashcards
Swiss chemist Identified the DNA while studying white blood cell
Later called it — changed to — deoxyribonucleic acid / DNA
Friedrich Miescher
Nuclein
Nucleic Acid
Timeline
(Yr) nuclein
Phosphate-sugar-base
Other DNA molecule
X-ray crystallography
Double stranded DNA
Friedrich Miescher
Phoebus Levene
Erwin Chargaff
Rosalind F. & Maurice W.
James W. & Francis C.
1st scientist to formulate an accurate description of this molecule’s complex (double-helix structure)
(Yr) - noble price in — & —
Watson and Crick
Physiology & Medicine
Something from the dead type S bacteria was transforming the type R bacteria and S. Griffith called this process —
transformation
S-bacteria =
R-bacteria =
Heated s-bacteria =
Mixed s&r bacteria =
Mouse dies = s-bacteria cell found in heart
Mouse lives = no bacterial cell
Mouse lives = no bacterial cell
Mouse dies = s-bacteria cell found in heart
Phases of genetic material of T2 Phage
Phage attaches to E.coli, inject chromosomes
Chromosomes breaks down and replicates
Generates phage structural components
Phage particles assemble
Bacterial cell wall lyses release phages
Leading up to the Discovery….
1868:
1910:
1928:
1944:
1950:
1952:
1953:
DNA “Saga” began when Swiss
biochemist Miescher isolated Nuclein
Levene - Tetranucleotide Hypothesis
Griffith - Transforming Principle
Avery, MacLeod & McCarty - DNA is
Transforming Principle
Chargaff’s Rules - A=T, G=C
Hershey & Chase - Blender Experiment
Watson & Crick - A Structure for DNA
Who
X-ray diffraction work on ram sperm and DNA
photographs of DNA showing crystalline structure
Maurice Wilkins
Who
English physical chemist and x-ray crystallographer expert
Previously worked on x-ray diffraction patterns in coal and carbon
Rosalind Franklin
“We realized that if DNA was
the gene material, then we
had just shown that genes
could crystalize…”
Raymond Gosling
Discovered 2 forms of DNA: - form (——) and -
form (——)
Focused on the crystalline “-“ form while Wilkins was interested in “-“ form, as it was the biological form
Rosalind F.
A
Dehydrated
B
Hydrated
solved basic mathematics of helical diffraction
theory
Alec stokes
Taken by Raymond Gosling in March 1952 under franklin’s instructions
Photograph 51
Information molecule
Polymers
Monomers are called —
Thousands of shorter segments of — called —
DNA
DNA molecules
Nucleotides
Genes
Nucleotides monomers built from 3 simple molecular parts;
Deoxyribose sugar,
Phosphate group, and
Nitrogenous base