A | B |
transformation | term used by Griffith to describe how one strain of non disease causing bacteria changed into a disease causing strain of bacteria |
bacteriophage | virus that reproduces in bacterial cells |
zoophage | virus that reproduces in animal cells |
phytophage | virus that reproduces in plant cells |
Smooth Form | strain of disease causing bacteria with polysaccharide capsule |
Rough Form | strain of non-disease causing bacteria without polysaccharide capsule |
Oswald Avery | determined that bacterial transformation was caused by DNA |
Fredrick Griffith | discovered bacterial transformation |
Hershey and Chase | used radioactive markers to determine that DNA from viruses entered bacterial cells |
nucleotides | building blocks joined to form DNA |
deoxyribose | sugar found in DNA nucleotides |
purines | double ringed nitrogen bases such as guanine and adenine |
pyrimidines | single ringed nitrogen bases such as thymine and cytosine |
Erwin Chargaff | determined that nitrogen bases formed specific base pairs formed by a purine and a pyrimidine |
adenine | purine that pairs with the pyrimidine thymine |
thymine | pyrimidine that pairs with the purine adenine |
guanine | purine that pairs with the pyrimidine cytosine |
cytosine | pyrimidine that pairs with the purine guanine |
Linus Pauling | in correctly proposed that DNA was a triple helix |
Rosalind Franklin | took x-ray pictures of DNA showing it was a helix |
James Watson & Francis Crick | determined that the structure of DNA was a double helix |
deoxyribose | together with phosphate groups form the sides of DNA molecule |
phosphate groups | together with deoxyribose form the sides of DNA molecules |
nitrogen base pairs | form the center of the DNA molecule |
hydrogen bonds | weak bonds that connect base pairs in DNA |