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4611255207Beadle and Tatumone gene one enzyme hypothesis using Neurospora0
4611260366Garrodinborn error of metabolism study with alkaptonura1
4611478180Griffithtransformed R strain into S strain in mice2
4611480893Hershey and Chaseused S labeled protein and P labeled DNA to show DNA is essential for bacteriophage replication3
4611489044adenine, guaninepurines4
4611489932cytosine and thyminepyrimidines5
4611491149ribosesugar found in RNA6
4611491439deoxyribosesugar found in DNA7
4611494969monomer of DNAnucleotide8
4611495670components of a nucleotidenitrogenous base, phosphate, pentose sugar9
4611499324phosphodiester bondcovalent bond connecting nucleotides together10
4611503100antiparallel structureone strand 3' to 5' and other strand 5' to 3'11
4611507639Chargaff's rulesA pairs with T and G pairs with C12
4611509294Rosalind FrankinX ray crystallography study13
4611527745Watson and Crickbuilt scale model of DNA14
4611529629Hydrogen bondshow DNA strands are held together15
4611537932Meselson and Stahlexperiment to support semiconservative replication16
4619950496DNA helicaseunwinds helix by breaking hydrogen bonds17
4619952146helix destabilizing proteinskeep DNA strands unwound during replication18
4619957561DNA polymerasecreates new DNA strand in 5' to 3' direction using nucleotide triphosphates19
4619960011leading strandnew DNA strand made continuously20
4619960561lagging strandnew DNA strand made discontinuously in short segments called Okazaki fragments21
4619962108ligaseconnects the Okazaki fragments together22
4619964432RNA primerneeded in order for DNA polymerase to start making new strand23
4619966744replication forkunwinding of DNA helix at origin of replication24
4619968106bidirectional replicationreplication forks move to left and right at same time25
4619970954prokaryoteone circular double stranded chromosome26
4619971367eukaryotemany linear double stranded chromosomes twisted around histones27
4619974894topoisomeraseenzyme that repairs knotted DNA28
4619977328B DNAform of DNA studied by Watson and Crick; right handed twist29

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