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Campbell Biology 101

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589164132What did Watson and Crick discover?Double helical model of DNA
589164133DNA encodes...hereditary information
589164134What did Morgan discover and when?Genes on chromosomes, early 20th century
589164135What did Frederick Griffith study?Pathogenic and non pathogenic pneumonia in mice
589164136What and when did Hershey and Chase discover?DNA is genetic material, 1952
589164137How did Hershey and Chase perform their experiment?Centrifuge
589164138What did Erwin Chargoff discover?Base pairs vary among species 30% Adenine in humans 26% Adenine in E.coli
589164139What did Wilkins and Franklin do?Produced the first X-ray crystallography of DNA DNA composed of two antiparallel sugar-phosphate backbones
589164140What are the dimensions of DNA1nm wide 3.4 nm per rotation .34 nm between base pairs
589164141How many hydrogen bonds does Adenine/Thymine have? Cytosine/Guanine?2,3
589164142What combination of base pairs fit together?Pyrimidine + purine
589164143How many new strands of DNA are formed each time it is replicated?2
589164144Is DNA Dispersive, conservative, or semi-conservative? Who discovered this? When?Semi-conservative, Meselson and Stahl, 1950's
589164145What are the three steps of DNA replication?Origin of replication, Elongation, Priming
589164146What end do nucleotides add on to?3'
589164147Where does elongation occur? What is it catalyzed by?Replication fork, DNA polymerase
589164148What are the two original strands of DNA called?Leading and Lagging strand
589164149Why does the lagging strand lag?It must create the new DNA in okazaki fragments from the 5' to 3' end
589164150What joins okazaki fragments together?DNA ligase
589164151What is a telomere?Nucleotide sequences at the ends of DNA molecules

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