Hershey and Chase Experiments

Who is Chase’s partner in the experiment?

• Kisses

• Musketeers

• Hersheys

• M&M’s

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 is responsible for producing this image?

• Francis Crick
• James Watson
• Rosalind Franklin
• Watson and Crick

What did Erwin Chargaff conclude from his experiments?

• Nitrogen bases are held together by peptide bonds
• A and T, C and G always occur in equal amounts
• Proteins are the carriers of genetic information
• C and G rarely occur in eukaryotic organisms

What was Watson and Crick's main scientific accomplishment?

• Building the first accurate model of DNA
• Isolating strains of pneumonia causing bacteria
• Determining base pairing rules
• Discovering the process of genetic transformation

From his work with mice and pneumonia-causing bacteria, Frederick Griffith discovered what?

• Replication
• Transcription
• Transformation
• Translation

By using radioactive isotopes, Hershey and Chase were able to conclude that _____ is the carrier of genetic information.

• DNA
• Protein
• Carbohydrate
• Lipid

Watson and Crick were the first to suggest that DNA is _____

• a short molecule
• the shape of a double helix
• a protein molecule
• the genetic material

The structure of DNA was discovered in ___________________.

• 1953

• 1965

• 1900

• 1980's

The scientist(s) who settled the debate about whether it was proteins or DNA that was the genetic material of the cell

• Avery
• Hershey & Chase
• Watson & Crick
• Griffith