Rosalind Franklin: DNA's unsung hero

Rosalind Franklin: DNA's unsung hero

9th Grade

8 Qs

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Rosalind Franklin: DNA's unsung hero

Rosalind Franklin: DNA's unsung hero

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Biology

9th Grade

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8 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who were the two scientists who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA?

James Watson and Rosalind Franklin

Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins

James Watson and Francis Crick

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the x-ray image of DNA obtained by Rosalind Franklin?

X-Ray Crystallography

Double Helix

Photo 51

DNA Structure

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who took Rosalind Franklin's Photo 51 and showed it to Watson and Crick without her knowledge?

Maurice Wilkins

James Watson

Rosalind Franklin herself

Francis Crick

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did Watson and Crick's model of DNA reveal about its structure?

DNA is made of two helicoidal strands

DNA is made of three helicoidal strands

DNA is made of a single helicoidal strand

DNA is made of four helicoidal strands

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When did Rosalind Franklin die?

1982

1962

1958

1920

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for their work on DNA?

James Watson and Francis Crick

Watson, Crick, and Wilkins

Rosalind Franklin

Maurice Wilkins

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did Rosalind Franklin's work on the structure of viruses lead to?

A Nobel Prize for a colleague

A Nobel Prize for herself

A Nobel Prize for Watson and Crick

A Nobel Prize for Maurice Wilkins

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did Rosalind Franklin's research on the structure of coal lead to?

Better gas masks for the British during World War II

A breakthrough in DNA research

The discovery of the double helix

The Nobel Prize in 1962