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BIOLOGY CH. 12
Section 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| process by which one strain of bacteria is changed by a gene or genes from another strain of bacteria | transformation |
| _________ and other scientists discovered that DNA is the ________ ______ that stores and transmits the __________ information from one generation of an organism to the next | Avery, nucleic acid, genetic |
| Kind of virus that infects and kills bacteria, "bacteria eater" | bacteriophage |
| DNA is a long molecule made up of units called ___________ | nucleotides |
| Name the three things nucleotides are made of | a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base |
| What are chargaffs rules | A=T, C=G |
| _________ and ___________ model of DNA was a double helix, in which two strands were wound around eachother | Watson, Crick |
| principle that bonds in DNA can form between adenine and thymine and guanine and cytosine | base pairing |