| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Duplicate itself and control the development of the rest of the cell in a specific way | 2 jobs of genetic material |
| Streptococcus Pneumoniae | Causes pneumonia/meningitis, can infect mice as well as humans, was used in a transformation experiment by Griffith in the 1920's |
| Transformation of Bacterial Strains | Heat-killed, virulent bacteria transformed the living nonvirulent bacteria, the transforming factor passed from the dead cells to the living cells, this transforming factor was the genetic material |
| Bacteriophage | A virus that infects bacterial cells, consists only of proteins and DNA, study of these provides another proof that DNA is the gentic material |
| Virus | A sub-microscopic infectious agent that is unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell |
| DNA, not protein, is the genetic material | Conclusion of Hershey and Chase's experiments |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| RNA | Ribonucleic acid |
| Sugar, phosphate group, base | Nucleotides are composed of |
| DNA Sequence | How bases are lined up in a strand of DNA, codes for genetic information |
| Double Helix | DNA Structure |
| "Photo 51" | Rosalind Franklin took this critical photo |
| Antiparallel | The 2 strands of DNA in a double helix are |
| Semi-Conservative Replication of DNA | 2 old strands split, nucleotide component base pairs with it's partner (A->T, C->G), DNA polymerase connects to nucleotides to form new strands |
| Duplicating Itself | DNA's double helical structure is ideal for |
| Chromatin | Makes up chromosomes, it is a complex of DNA and protein |
| Histones | DNA-binding proteins, assist in compacting and folding DNA into a chromosome, shorten the DNA length |
| Nucleosomes | Bead-like structures composed of histones wrapped with DNA |
Combine with other sets
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