4611255207 | Beadle and Tatum | one gene one enzyme hypothesis using Neurospora | ![]() | 0 |
4611260366 | Garrod | inborn error of metabolism study with alkaptonura | ![]() | 1 |
4611478180 | Griffith | transformed R strain into S strain in mice | ![]() | 2 |
4611480893 | Hershey and Chase | used S labeled protein and P labeled DNA to show DNA is essential for bacteriophage replication | ![]() | 3 |
4611489044 | adenine, guanine | purines | ![]() | 4 |
4611489932 | cytosine and thymine | pyrimidines | ![]() | 5 |
4611491149 | ribose | sugar found in RNA | ![]() | 6 |
4611491439 | deoxyribose | sugar found in DNA | ![]() | 7 |
4611494969 | monomer of DNA | nucleotide | ![]() | 8 |
4611495670 | components of a nucleotide | nitrogenous base, phosphate, pentose sugar | ![]() | 9 |
4611499324 | phosphodiester bond | covalent bond connecting nucleotides together | ![]() | 10 |
4611503100 | antiparallel structure | one strand 3' to 5' and other strand 5' to 3' | ![]() | 11 |
4611507639 | Chargaff's rules | A pairs with T and G pairs with C | ![]() | 12 |
4611509294 | Rosalind Frankin | X ray crystallography study | 13 | |
4611527745 | Watson and Crick | built scale model of DNA | ![]() | 14 |
4611529629 | Hydrogen bonds | how DNA strands are held together | ![]() | 15 |
4611537932 | Meselson and Stahl | experiment to support semiconservative replication | ![]() | 16 |
4619950496 | DNA helicase | unwinds helix by breaking hydrogen bonds | ![]() | 17 |
4619952146 | helix destabilizing proteins | keep DNA strands unwound during replication | ![]() | 18 |
4619957561 | DNA polymerase | creates new DNA strand in 5' to 3' direction using nucleotide triphosphates | ![]() | 19 |
4619960011 | leading strand | new DNA strand made continuously | ![]() | 20 |
4619960561 | lagging strand | new DNA strand made discontinuously in short segments called Okazaki fragments | ![]() | 21 |
4619962108 | ligase | connects the Okazaki fragments together | ![]() | 22 |
4619964432 | RNA primer | needed in order for DNA polymerase to start making new strand | ![]() | 23 |
4619966744 | replication fork | unwinding of DNA helix at origin of replication | ![]() | 24 |
4619968106 | bidirectional replication | replication forks move to left and right at same time | ![]() | 25 |
4619970954 | prokaryote | one circular double stranded chromosome | ![]() | 26 |
4619971367 | eukaryote | many linear double stranded chromosomes twisted around histones | ![]() | 27 |
4619974894 | topoisomerase | enzyme that repairs knotted DNA | ![]() | 28 |
4619977328 | B DNA | form of DNA studied by Watson and Crick; right handed twist | ![]() | 29 |
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