DNA

Question 1

What does DNA stand for

Answer 1

DexoxyriboNucleic Acid

Question 2

What is DNA made up of

Answer 2

DNA is made up of monomers called nucleotides

Question 3

Whats a monomer

Answer 3

a molecule that can be bonded with other IDENTICAL molecules (forms polymer)

Question 4

What is the function of DNA

Answer 4

store genetic material

Question 5

What are the 4 types of nucleotide (letters)

Answer 5

A, T, C, G

Question 6

What does the structure look like (DNA)

Answer 6

2 strand in a double helix

Question 7

Are the hydrogen bonds weak or strong

Answer 7

weak

Question 8

What are examples of a helix

Answer 8

spiral staircase, corkscrew

Question 9

Go to slide 8: Whats A

Answer 9

Adenine

Question 10

Go to slide 8: Whats B

Answer 10

thymine

Question 11

Go to slide 8: Whats C

Answer 11

cytosine

Question 12

Go to slide 8: Whats D

Answer 12

guanine

Question 13

Where is DNA located/ packaged

Answer 13

Chromosomes

Question 14

When chromosomes un-condense do they have to undo all of the chromosome

Answer 14

No, they can just take a section

Question 15

Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Stores genetic information (Name)

Answer 15

DNA

Question 16

An enzyme that separates DNA strands

Answer 16

DNA Helicase

Question 17

This enzyme builds the new DNA strands using the old strands as a template.

Answer 17

DNA polymerase

Question 18

The building blocks of DNA. Made up of a sugar-phosphate backbone and a nitrogenous base.

Answer 18

Nucleotide

Question 19

DNA replication is called —— because the new DNA molecules contain one original strand and one new strand

Answer 19

Semiconservative

Question 20

States that the amount of A always equals the amount of T nucleotides and amount of C = G

Answer 20

Chargaffs rule

Question 21

——- are proteins that DNA coils tightly around ​​​​​​​

Answer 21

Histones

Question 22

What are the 4 nucleotides in DNA (words)

Answer 22

Thymine, Cytosine, Adenine, Guanine

Question 23

What are the 4 nucleotide in RNA

Answer 23

Uracil, Cytosine, Adenine, Guanine

Question 24

What year was DNA confirmed as as the hereditary genetic material

Answer 24

1952

Question 25

What did Chargaff state

Answer 25

Amount of A always equals amount of T and C always equals the amount of G

Question 26

Name 2 things Watson and Crick did

Answer 26

- Built models using Chargaffs and Franklin data - proposed double-helix structure with base parings between two DNA stands

Question 27

Who Took X-ray crystallography photos of DNA.

Answer 27

Franklin

Question 28

What was Rosalind Franklin skilled at

Answer 28

crystallography

Question 29

Was Rosalind Franklin taken seriously

Answer 29

No

Question 30

What happened to Franklin's famous photo 51

Answer 30

it was given to Watson without her permission

Question 31

When did Rosalind Franklin die

Answer 31

1958 at 37

Question 32

Why is it believed that Franklin died

Answer 32

From working with X-rays, she had ovarian cancer

Question 33

Describe the events surrounding the Nobel peace prize in 1962

Answer 33

-Franklin's photo 51 was given to Watson without her permission - Franklin died - Watson and Crick won the Nobel peace price (from photo 51) - Franklin was not credited for her work

Question 34

What hold one strand of DNA together (molecule)

Answer 34

Phosphate and sugar form the phosphate sugar backbone which holds one strand of DNA together

Question 35

What creates the genetic code for DNA

Answer 35

Nitrogen base

Question 36

What does the nitrogen base do for the structure

Answer 36

The base connects with the opposite strand of DNA to hold the two strands of double helix together

Question 37

What holds each strand together with strong covalent bonds

Answer 37

Phosphate- sugar backbone

Question 38

What connects two stands with hydrogen bonds

Answer 38

Nitrogen base pairs

Question 39

What are the DNA base paring rules (letter pairing)

Answer 39

A and T C and G

Question 40

When is there one full turn DNA

Answer 40

every 10 base pairs

Question 41

What cell in your body contains an identical copy of your DNA on 46 chromosomes.

Answer 41

All

Question 42

When DNA is stretched out is it a short or long distance

Answer 42

long as a football field

Question 43

If guanine makes up 15 percent of the bases in a specific DNA molecule, what percentage of the bases are cytosine

Answer 43

15%

Question 44

Cytosine always pairs with

Answer 44

Guanine

Question 45

The two men who established the structure of DNA were

Answer 45

Watson and Crick

Question 46

The "rungs" of the DNA ladder are made of

Answer 46

Base pairs

Question 47

Adenine always pairs with

Answer 47

thymine

Question 48

An enzyme that separates DNA strands

Answer 48

Helicase

Question 49

A Y shaped point that results when the two strands of DNA double helix separate so that the DNA molecule can be replicated

Answer 49

Replication Fork

Question 50

An enzyme that catalyzes the formation of the DNA molecule

Answer 50

DNA polymerase

Question 51

In each DNA double helix, one strand is from the original molecule, and one strand is from the new

Answer 51

Semi-Conversation replication

Question 52

A change in the nucleotide-base sequence of a gene or DNA molecule

Answer 52

Mutation

Question 53

Is DNA the shape of a twisted ladder called a double helix.

Answer 53

yes

Question 54

Does DNA have two strands that form a branched chain called a branched helix.

Answer 54

NO

Question 55

Go to slide 10: Whats A

Answer 55

Phosphate group

Question 56

Go to slide 10: Whats B

Answer 56

Sugar

Question 57

Go to slide 10: Whats C

Answer 57

Nitrogenous base

Question 58

The twisted ladder shape of DNA is called

Answer 58

Double Helix

Question 59

What Complements T

Answer 59

A

Question 60

The sugar found in DNA is called

Answer 60

dexoyribose

Question 61

Go to slide 11: What is the arrow pointing to

Answer 61

a (nitrogen) Base

Question 62

A nucleic acid chain, a subunit that consists of sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrogenous base

Answer 62

nucleotide

Question 63

A five carbon sugar that is a component of DNA nucleotides

Answer 63

dexoyribose

Question 64

An organic base that contains nitrogen such as purine or pyrimidine, a subunit of nucleotide in DNA or RNA

Answer 64

Nitrogenous bases

Question 65

Adenine or guanine a nitrogenous base found in DNA or RNA

Answer 65

Purine

Question 66

thymine, cytosine or uracil, nitrogenous base found in DNA or RNA

Answer 66

Pyrimidine

Question 67

The rules that cytosine pairs with guanine and adenine pairs with thymine in DNA and that Adenine pairs with uracil in RNA

Answer 67

Base Pairing rule

Question 68

The DNA molecule is held together by

Answer 68

Hydrogen bonds