Chapter 12: DNA

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Rosalind Franklin

________ used a technique called X- ray diffraction to get information about the structure of the DNA molecule.

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thymine

DNA has four kinds of nitrogenous bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and ________.

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Franklins X ray

The clues in ________ pattern allowed Watson and Crick to build a model that explained the specific structure and properties of DNA.

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DNA

________ is a nucleic acid made up of nucleotides joined into long strands or chains by covalent bonds.

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Cells

________ use a special enzyme called telomerase that makes it less likely that genes will be damaged or lost during replication of rapidly dividing ________.

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Erwin Chargaff

________ and Rosalind Franklin both helped solve the puzzle of the structure of DNA.

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Crick

Watson and ________ discovered that hydrogen bonds could form between certain nitrogenous bases.

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Nucleotides

The building blocks of nucleic acids

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Hershey

________ and Chase used a bacteriophage that had a DNA core and a protein coat to find out which part of the virus- the protein coat or the DNA core- entered bacterial cells.

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eukaryotic cells

In ________, replication may begin in hundreds of places on the DNA molecule.

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hydrogen bonds

Though ________ are fairly weak forces, they have just enough force to hold the two strands of DNA together.

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DNA polymerase

The principal enzyme involved in DNA replication

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DNA

The ________ that makes up genes must be capable of storing, copying, and passing on the genetic information in a cell.

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Crick

Watson and ________ determined that DNA has the structure of a double helix that looks like a twisted ladder.

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Nucleotides are the building blocks of nucleic acids and are made up of three basic parts

a 5-carbon sugar called deoxyribose, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base

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DNA has four kinds of nitrogenous bases

adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine

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These bonds would form only between certain base pairs

adenine paired with thymine, and guanine paired with cytosine

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Transformation

A process in which one strain of bacteria is changed by a gene or genes from another strain of bacteria

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Bacteriophage

A kind of virus that infects bacteria

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Base pairing

The principle that bonds in DNA can form only between adenine and thymine and between guanine and cytosine

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Replication

The process of copying DNA prior to cell division

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Telomere

The repetitive DNA at the end of a eukaryotic chromosome

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Viruses

Tiny, nonliving particles that can infect living cells

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