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Ch 12 Biology test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what scientist did the experiment with the mice? | fredrick griffith |
| transforming factor is a ______________? | gene |
| What scientist tested the transforming ability of the 4 macromolecules? | oswald avery |
| What macromolecule caused transformation | nucleic acid |
| What did avery discover? | DNA stores and transmits genetic information from one generation of bacteria to the next |
| What year did fredrick griffith conduct his experiment? | 1928 |
| What year did avery conduct his experiments? | 1944 |
| What scientists further tested averys work? | Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase |
| If they found sulfur radioactivity inside the bacterial cell the ___________________had been injected. | [protein coat] |
| If they found phosphorus radioactivity inside the bacterial cell the _______________ had been injected. | [DNA core] |
| What did Hershey and Chase use to label protiens and DNA in bacteriophages? | radioactive markers |
| Bacteriophages do what? | it attaches to the surface/membrane of the bacterial cell and injects its genetic material into it. |
| Genetic Material is found in what? | genes |
| What is the role of DNA | storing, copying, transmittingDNA information |
| What is the monomer of a nucleic acid | nucleotide |
| What scientist came up with the idea that A=T and C=G? | Erwin Chargraff |
| Who came up with the original idea of the structure of DNA? | Rosalind Franklin |
| What two scientists stole franklins work? | James Watson and Francis Crick |
| Who helped watson and crick? | Maurice Wilkins |
| What bonds hold the backbones together? | hydrogen bonds |
| the strands are said to be complementary... | Because each strand can be used to make the other strand |
| Through which process does DNA copy itself | replication |
| What do the two DNA strands unzip with? | helicase |
| DNA polymerase | enzyme that joins individual nucleotides to produce a new strand of DNA |
| Telomeres | tips of the chromosome |
| telomerase is used for what? | to prevent pieces being lost |
| The cells of most prokaryotes have_______________________ molecule in the cytoplasm | single circular DNA |
| What is the DNA molecule in prokaryotes known as? | plasmid |
| In eukaryotic cells, replication may begin at ________________ or ________________ of places on the DNA molecule, | dozens or hundreds |