AP-bio UNIT 6- vocabulary quiz

A process in which DNA has the unique ability to make an exact copy of itself.

• Replication
• Translation
• Transcription

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What is transformation?

• The use of viruses to transform or genetically

  
  

  engineer cells.

• The measure of how well cells are transformed in a new phenotype.

• The insertion of a foreign plasmid into a bacterial cell which results in new acquired traits.

• Genetic engineering or transformation of mammalian cells.

A(n) _____ is a virus that enters a bacterial cell.

• endospore
• decomposer
• plasmid
• bacteriophage

This scientist(s) found a "transforming principle" that changed harmless bacteria into harmful bacteria

• Mendel
• Avery
• Chargraff
• Griffith

Which scientists used viruses and radioactive isotopes to definitively prove that DNA, and not protein, was the molecule of heredity?

• Griffith and Avery
• Chargaff and Franklin
• Watson and Crick
• Hershey and Chase

Who was responsible for the model shown?

• Oswald Avery
• Watson and Crick
• Erwin Chargaff
• Rosalind Franklin

How did Rosalind Franklin's photo 51 affect the work of Watson and Crick?

• It was used to determine the physical structure of DNA
• It was used to identify the four bases that make up DNA
• It was used to determine the theory of independent assortment
• It was used to show DNA was the molecule of inheritance

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The DNA is called the double helix because___?

• it's two strands twist

• it's two strands unwind

• it's tow strands coil up

• it's two strands cross

antiparallel stands of nucleotides run in:

• opposite directions

• the same direction

• base pairs

• chromosomes

The replication of a DNA molecule begins at particular sites called ______________________, short stretches of DNA having a specific sequence of nucleotides.

• origins of replication

• replication forks

• replication bubbles

• telomeres

• primers