DNA people and structure review:

  1. Who was/were responsible for determining the twisting shape of the DNA molecule?
  2. What organism was transformed by Griffith?
  3. What part of the virus was labeled with sulfur?
  4. How did the centrifuge help Messelson and Stahl determine the semi-conservative nature of DNA?
  5. Who did the most to illuminate the complimentary nature of nucleotide bases?
  6. Who was/were responsible for the model of DNA?
  7. Who was/were responsible for the bacteriophage experiment that illustrated that viral DNA was the primary influence on the activity of a cell?
  8. Who was/were responsible for the idea that nitrogen bases must be paired as they are in equal percentages in every sample of DNA?
  9. What is the transforming material according to Avery?
  10. Who was/were responsible for the idea that DNA replicates in a semi-conservative fashion?
  11. What experiment used isotopes to do their experiment
  12. What is a bacteriphage?
  13. What was the role of the bacteriophage in the experiment it was used?
  14. Who relied on Franklin and Wilkens research the most of the group we studied?
  15. When the harmless R bacteria were mixed with the heat-killed dangerous S bacteria what process happened that eventually caused the death of the mice?

Answer the questions using your concept map.

  1. What type of bond holds together the backbone of the DNA molecule?
  2. What sugar is found in DNA?
  3. What are the proteins that DNA wraps around in forming chromosomes?
  4. What is the level of structure that is the order of the amino acids?
  5. What are the three nitrogen bases on a tRNA that hook to the mRNA called?
  6. What is the term for the sides of the double helix being arranged in the opposite direction?
  7. What part of the cell makes a ribosome?
  8. What holds amino acids together?
  9. What is the term for DNA making RNA?
  10. What holds the two strands of DNA to each other?
  11. During S phase of interphase the DNA is doubled, what is this process called?
  12. C matches with G, what is the idea of having a perfect match called?
  13. What enzyme is used to assemble a new DNA strand?
  14. Where in the cell is DNA found?
  15. What nitrogen base is found in RNA, but not DNA?
  16. DNA strands run in opposite directions, what is the term to describe this arrangement?