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Bio II Ch. 14 Vocabulary

Matching
 
 
a.
mutations
f.
Alfred D. Hershey and Martha Chase
b.
store info, replicate, undergo mutations
g.
Frederick Griffith
c.
nucleic acid
h.
Owald Avery
d.
DNA
i.
bacteriophages
e.
RNA
 

 1. 

genetic material must be able to do these things
 

 2. 

ribonucleic acid
 

 3. 

deoxyribonucleic acid
 

 4. 

isolated the genetic material in the lab and demonstrated DNA is the transforming substance
 

 5. 

a virus that attacks bacteria
 

 6. 

genetic variability by multiple causes
 

 7. 

used mice to prove transformation occurs
 

 8. 

an acidic substance different from protein; rich in phosphorous and no sulfer
 

 9. 

used bacteriophage to prove DNA is the genetic material
 
 
a.
purine base
h.
variability
b.
adenine
i.
Rosalind Franklin
c.
guanine
j.
James Watson and Francis Crick
d.
pyrimidine
k.
complementary base pairing
e.
thymine
l.
140 million
f.
cytosine
m.
constancy
g.
Erwin Chargaff
 

 10. 

the average number of base pairs on a human chromosome
 

 11. 

constructed a model of DNA using the evidence from other scientists
 

 12. 

a purine is always bonded to a pyramidine; A-T and C-G
 

 13. 

a purine base that pairs with thymine
 

 14. 

used x-ray diffraction to get a picture of DNA
 

 15. 

a base with only one ring
 

 16. 

a pyramidine base that pairs with guanine
 

 17. 

proved complementery base pairing of nitrogen bases to prove variability and constancy of the genetic material
 

 18. 

a base with two rings
 

 19. 

different species have different percentages of base pairs
 

 20. 

a pyramidine base that pairs with adenine
 

 21. 

a purine base that pairs with cytosine
 

 22. 

within each species, DNA has to be relative unchanged through each replication
 
 
a.
semiconservative replication
h.
replication fork
b.
DNA polymerase
i.
replication bubbles
c.
Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl
j.
RNA primer
d.
leading strand
k.
Barbara McClintock
e.
lagging strand
l.
transposons
f.
Okazaki fragments
m.
1 per 100,000
g.
DNA ligase
n.
1 per 1 billion
 

 23. 

an enzyme that matches DNA base pairs together
 

 24. 

DNA strand that is synthesized in the 5’ to 3’ direction
 

 25. 

error rate in nitrogen base sequence after proofreading has occured
 

 26. 

during DNA replication, an old strand is paired with a new strand
 

 27. 

DNA strand that is running in the 3’ to 5’ direction
 

 28. 

scientist working with corn that discovered the effects of transposons 
 

 29. 

a short piece of the lagging strand that is RNA primed for DNA polymerase
 

 30. 

proved semiconservative replication using heavy nitrogen isotopes
 

 31. 

a V shape where DNA is being replicated
 

 32. 

used on Okazaki fragments to help DNA polymerase synthesize new strands in the 5’ to 3’ direction with the lagging strand
 

 33. 

error rate during DNA replication before proofreading occurs
 

 34. 

bubbles that spread bidirectionally during DNA replication until they meet
 

 35. 

known as a jumping gene; can cause randoom mutations in DNA
 

 36. 

an enzyme that joins the 3’ end of each fragment to the 5’ end of another
 



 
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