Griffith Avery and Hershey and Chase

From his work with mice and pneumonia-causing bacteria, Frederick Griffin coined the term

• Replication
• Transcription
• Transformation
• Translation

Using the image what happened to the mice labeled X and Z?

• Both X and Z died

• Both X and Z lived

• X died and Z lived

• X lived and Z died

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Which scientist conducted the experiment pictured?

• Chargaff

• Griffith

• Hershey

• Watson

Who FIRST showed that DNA was the transforming factor?

• Griffith

• Avery

• Chargaff

• Franklin

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

Which two radioactive isotopes were used to label the DNA and protein components of viruses called bacteriophages?

• Nitrogen and Phosphorus
• Phosphorus and Sulfur
• Nitrogen and Sulfur

which was a conclusion of Griffiths work with Streptococcus pneumoniae?

• DNA is the genetic material in Viruses

• The structure of DNA is a double helix

• Bacteria exposed to DNA can incorporate the DNA and change phenotype

• The amount of thymine equals the amount of adenine in DNA

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

• Mendel
• Avery
• Chargraff
• Griffith

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

Bacteriophages are

• Viruses

• Bacteria

• Prions

• Viroids