Chapter 10 Flashcards
(9 cards)
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three parts of a DNA nucleotide
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phosphate, sugar, base
2
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Alfred Hershey
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identified DNA as the genetic material in bacteriophages
3
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Barbara McClintock
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crossing over, transposition/transposons
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Erwin Chargoff
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discovered there is some regularity in the ratio of the bases
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Francis Crick
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worked out the helical structure of DNA by building models
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Fred Griffith
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demonstrated transformation in bacteria, but couldn’t explain it’s mechanism
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Oswald Avery
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discovery of the transforming principle in DNA experiment revealed the nature of the transforming principle
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Phoebus Aaron Levene
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discovered that DNA consists of repeating nucleotides
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Rosalind Franklin
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took x-ray diffraction pictures used in constructing the structure of DNA
