Introduction to Genes and Genomes

Who are the people who played a major role in DNA and genetics?

• Gregor Mendel, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick

• Gregor Mendel, Benjamin Franklin, James Watson Sherlock Holmes

How does DNA replicate/copy itself?

• Carefully

• Semiconservatively

• Mitosis

• Xerox

What are the 3 parts of DNA

• Sugar Phosphate Backbone

• Nitrogenous Bases

• Hydrogen Bonds

• Twizzlers and marshmallows

What are the four bases of DNA?

• Adenine

• Thymine

• Guanine

• Cytosine

What did Rosalind Franklin contribute to the history of DNA?

• She made a model of DNA

• She used X-ray crystallography to take a photograph of DNA

• She died of cancer at 37

• She stole the photo of DNA

Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?

• They are relatives of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson

• Were thieves

• Built the first accurate model of DNA

• Story characters

Gregor Mendel...

• was known as the "Father" of genetics.

• discovered genes come in pairs one from each parent.

• is still alive today

• stars in the new movie with Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart

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Mendel discovered...

• stuff

• peas are plants

• there are dominant and recessive traits

• nothing

What is genetics?

• Study of jeans

• Study of genetics

• Study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics

• Study of genes

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Traits are.....

• inherited from generation to generation

• are not expressed in every generation

• passed down from parents

• are overrated and not needed.

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