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| GREGOR MENDEL | DISCOVERED INHERITED TRAITS WHILE STUDYING PEA PLANTS, DETERMINED PHYSICAL TRAITS ARE A RESULT OF GENES |
| FREIDRICH MIESCHER | DISCOVERED DNA |
| WALTER SUTTON | WORKED WITH GRASSHOPPERS AND ESTABLISHED THE CHROMOSOME THEORY |
| THOMAS HUNT MORGAN | USED EYE COLOR OF FRUIT FLIES TO DETERMINE A LINK BETWEEN GENES AND CHROMOSOMES |
| FREDRICK GRIFFITH | USED TRANSFORMATION OF BACTERIA INJECTED IN MICE TO DETERMINE TRANSFORMING AGENT WAS AN INHERITANCE MOLECULE |
| AVERY, MACLEOD, & MACCARTY | DEFINED TRANSFORMING AGENT AS DNA |
| EDWIN CHARGAFF | IDENTIFIED THE DNA BASES AND DISCOVERED THE 1:1 RATIO OF BASE PAIRS |
| MAURICE WILKINS | photographed DNA using X-Ray crystallography |
| DNA | DEOXYRIBO NUCLEIC ACID |
| NUCLEIC ACIDS | Macromolecules that includes DNA and RNA |
| NUCLEOTIDE | A subunit of nucleic acids formed from a simple sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base. |
| ADENINE | Nitrogen base that pairs with thymine in DNA |
| GUANINE | A nitrogen base found in DNA; pairs only with cytosine. |
| THYMINE | A nucleotide that pairs with adenine. Found only in DNA. |
| CYTOSINE | A nitrogenous base found in DNA; pairs with guanine |
| HYDROGEN BOND | A weak chemical bond used to hold complementary base pairs together |
| BASE PAIRS | Any of the pairs formed between complementary bases in the two nucleotide chains of DNA |
| DNA | Long Double Helix, made of Nucleotides |
| DEOXYRIBOSE | sugar in DNA |
| ROSALIND FRANKLIN | photographed DNA using sharp X-Ray diffraction; Watson and Crick used her data to discover shape of DNA |
| HERSHEY & CHASE | confirmed DNA was genetic material, not protein |
| WATSON & CRICK | discovered double helix 3 dimensional structure |
| PURINE | composed of a double ring of six-member nitrogen-containing ring and a five-member nitrogen-containing ring joined together...includes adenine and guanine |
| PYRIMIDINE | have a six-member nitrogen-containing ring...includes cytosine and thymine |
| DNA | controls production of proteins |
| nucleus | controls activities of cell through chromosomes |
| DNA | deoxyribonucleic acid |
| sugar (deoxyribo) & phosphate | makes up sides of of DNA double helix ladder |
| nitrogen bases | makes up rungs of DNA double helix |
| adenine | a compound which is one of the four constituent bases of nucleic acids. A purine derivative, it is paired with thymine in double-stranded DNA. |
| guanine | one of the four constituent bases of nucleic acids. A purine derivative, it is paired with cytosine in double-stranded DNA. |
| thymine | a compound which is one of the four constituent bases of nucleic acids. A pyrimidine derivative, it is paired with adenine in double-stranded DNA. |
| cytosine | a compound found in living tissue as a constituent base of nucleic acids. It is paired with guanine in double-stranded DNA. |
| hydrogen | bond between the bases that compose the rungs of DNA |
| shape of DNA | double helix |
| Gregor Mendel | discovered that inherited traits are determined by discrete units, or 'genes, passed on from the parents. |
| Freidrich Miescher | discovered DNA by isolating something new from the nuclei of eukaryotic cells |
| Walter Sutton | Established chromosomes as carriers of genetic material and these chromosomes are the basis for genetic inheritance |
| Thomas Hunt Morgan | Discovered genes are located (linked) on chromosomes |
| Edwin Chargaff | Discovered a 1:1 ratio of adenine to thymine and guanine to cytosine in DNA samples from a variety of organisms. |
| James Watson & Francis Crick | Discovered double helix structure of DNA |
| enzyme | a substance produced by a living organism which acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction. |
| LAGGING STRAND | a single DNA strand that, during DNA replication, is replicated in the 5′ – 3′ direction (opposite direction to the replication fork) |
| LEADING STRAND | during DNA replication, is replicated in the 3' – 5' direction |
| SEMI CONSERVATIVE | each newly synthesized double helix is a combination of one old (or original) and one new DNA strand |
| HELICASE | the enzyme, which unzips the DNA strands by breaking the hydrogen bonds between them. Thus, it helps in the formation of the replication fork. |
| DNA PRIMASE | enzymes whose continual activity is required at the DNA replication fork to start the replication process |
| DNA LIGASE | used to form "glue" fragments of DNA together in order to form new DNA strands during DNA replication |
| DNA POLYMERASE | enzymes that create DNA molecules by assembling nucleotides |
| OKAZAKI FRAGMENTS | short sequences of DNA nucleotides which are synthesized discontinuously and later linked together by the enzyme DNA ligase to create the lagging strand during DNA replication. |
| SEPARATION FORK | region where a cell's DNA double helix has been unwound and separated to create an area where DNA polymerases and the other enzymes involved can use each strand as a template to synthesize a new double helix. |
