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Name _________________________________ DNA Study Guide
Fill in the chart:
Scientist
Experiment
Conclusion
Griffin
Avery
Hershey-Chase
Chargaff
X
Maurice Wilkins
Rosalind Franklin
Watson & Crick
X
1) What is a bacteriophage?
2) What are the parts of a bacteriophage?
3) What are the three parts of a nucleotide?
a. ______________________
b. ______________________
c. ______________________
4) What are the two types of nucleotides? ____________ & ______________
5) What does the DNA code for? ________________________
6) Compare & Contrast DNA & RNA:
DNA
RNA
Structure
Sugar
Nitrogen Bases
Location
7) In DNA A always bonds with ______ & G always bonds with __________.
8) What are purines? Name and DRAW.
Name _________________________________ DNA Study Guide
9) What are pyrimidines? Name and DRAW.
10) Assume that the two parent strands of DNA have been separated and that the base
sequence on one parent strand is A-T-T-C-G-C; the base sequence that will
complement that parent strand is __________________________________________
11) Who was Rosalind Franklin?
12) What was her contribution to the discovery of DNA?
13) Why is the work of Rosalind Franklin overlooked in the discovery of DNA?
14) List the pieces of information about DNA structure that Rosalind Franklin discovered
through her x-ray diffraction research.
15) What is DNA Replication?
16) Where does replication take place? _____________________________
17) List and Describe the steps of replication.
18) What are the enzymes that are used in replication? ____________________________________
19) How many types of RNA are there? _____________
20) Complete the chart below
Type of RNA
Purpose
Location
21) What is protein synthesis?
22) Where does transcription take place? _______________________________
23) Where does translation take place? _______________________________
24) What is a codon?
25) What is an anti-codon?
26) There are 64 possible codons and 20 amino acids. What does this mean?
____________________________________________________________
27) During translation, how does the ribosome know which amino acid to pick?
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