1. DNA Structure History of DNA Molecules of replication Transcription Miscellaneous 100 200 300 400 100 200 300 400 200 300 400 200 300 400 100

2. RNA DNA History… Again Bio- technology MutationsPotpourri 200 400 600 800 200 400 600 800 400 600 800 400 600 800 F.J.

3. The Twisted structure of DNA. 100 Answer

4. What is the double helix? 100

5. The nucleotide is made of these three parts. 200 Answer

6. What are the nitrogen base, the sugar, and the phosphate? 200

7. The name for DNA coiled up during cell reproduction. 300 Answer

8. What is a chromosome? 300

9. A section of DNA that codes for a specific trait. 400 Answer

10. What is a gene? 400

11. This was originally believed to contain genetic information. 100 Answer

12. What is protein? 100

13. They discovered that DNA was the genetic material. 200 Answer

14. Who were Hershey and Chase? 200 100 pt bonus- how did they do this? Labeled DNA with Radioactive Phosphorus, then looked to see where the phosphorus was

15. Watson and Crick did this. 300 Answer

16. What is discover the double helix? 300

17. Franklin and Wilkins created pictures of DNA using this process. 400 Answer

18. What is a X-ray defraction? 400

19. The molecule that splits DNA for replication. 100 Answer

20. What is helicase? 100 100pt bonus: What molecule keeps the strands apart? Single-strand binding proteins

21. This molecule joins short strands of DNA. 200 Answer

22. What is ligase? 200

23. DNA polymerase does this. Answer

24. What is add nucleotides to the new strand during replication? 300

25. This molecule makes short sections of RNA to start transcription. 400 Answer

26. What is DNA Polymerase I? 400

27. The section of mRNA removed after transcription. 100 Answer

28. What are introns? 100

29. The type of cell that has both chromosomes from the homologous pair. 200 Answer

30. What is a diploid cell? 200

31. The three useless cells made in egg cell meiosis. 300 Answer

32. What are polar bodies? 300 100 pt Bonus: What is it called?

33. The process in meiosis that splits up the homologous pair. 400 Answer

34. What is meiosis I? 400

35. The three nucleotides found on a molecule of tRNA. 100 Answer

36. What is an anticodon? 100

37. Transcription takes place here. 200 Answer

38. Where is the nucleus? 200

39. What “DNA” and “RNA” are named for. 300 Answer

40. What are the sugars? 300

41. A point mutation that causes no problems. 400 Answer

42. What is a silent mutation? 400

43. 3 Differences between DNA and RNA 200 Answer

44. What are; 1. different sugars, 2. A-T, A-U 3. Nucleus vs Nucleus + Cytoplasm 4. DNA much larger 5. Single strand vs double helix 200

45. The molecule that ribosomes bind to in translation. 400 Answer

46. What is mRNA? 400

47. This molecule that transfers amino acids to the ribosomes 600 Answer

48. What is tRNA? 600

49. This enzyme (catalyst) helps transcription occur in the nucleus. 800 Answer

50. What is RNA polymerase? 800

51. This was determined to be the cause of transformation by Griffith in his experiments with mice 200 Answer

52. What is DNA (moving from one strand to another)? 200

53. He determined that the amount of adenine = thymine and cytosine = guanine. 400 Answer

54. Who is Erwin Chargaff? 400

55. Avery, McLeod, and McCarthy purified Various chemicals in bacteria and Supported this claim of Griffith’s. 600 Answer

56. What is DNA as the transforming property (Genetic material). 600

57. Meselson and Stahl proposed this Theory stating that each strand of DNA created during replication in part new strand and part original. 800 Answer

58. What is the semiconservative model of replication? 800

59. The ingredients needed for a PCR. 200 Answer

60. What are heat, nucleotides, DNA, DNA polymerase, and primers? 200

61. Molecules that cut DNA in specific places, giving sticky ends. 400 Answer

62. What are restriction enzymes? 400

63. An agent used to transfer DNA from a solution to a living cell (i.e. a plasmid). 600 Answer

64. What is a vector? 600

65. The number of restriction enzymes used in genetic recombination and why. 800 Answer

66. What are 1 because it cuts in the same spot and creates the same sticky ends 800

67. An addition or subtraction of a nucleotide that causes the remaining nucleotides to shift up or down. 200 Answer

68. What is a frameshift mutation? 200

69. A point mutation that causes a change in the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide. 400 Answer

70. What is a missense mutation? 400

71. The three nucleotides that code for a specific amino acid when transcribed and translated. 600 Answer

72. What are codons? 600

73. A frameshift mutation that would only change 1 amino acid in a polypeptide 800 Answer

74. What are insertions or deletions of 3 nucleotides. 800

75. The base pair that is different between DNA and RNA. 200 Answer

76. What is Thymine vs Uracil 200

77. The process that creates a DNA fingerprint. 400 Answer

78. What is gel electrophoresis? 400

79. The cause of DNA movement in gel electrophoresis. 600 Answer

80. What is the electrical charge (DNA moves towards the positive end?) 600

81. The sequence of amino acids that tells the RNA polymerase where to start transcribing. 800 Answer

82. What is a promoter? 800

83. FINAL JEOPARDY Answer