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Discovery of DNA

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What organism(s) did Frederick Griffith study? There may be 2!

a)

mice

b)

bacteriophage

c)

bacteria

2.

Who discovered that bacteria could be changed by the process of transformation?

a)

Griffith

b)

Hershey & Chase

c)

Avery

d)

Franklin

3.

Who discovered that genes were composed of DNA?

a)

Oswald Avery

b)

Frederick Griffith

c)

Hershey & Chase

d)

Erwin Chargaff

4.

Who discovered that the genetic material in a bacteriophage was DNA?

a)

Hershey & Chase

b)

Griffith

c)

Avery

d)

Watson & Crick

5.

Who worked with Hershey?

a)

Chase

b)

Watson

c)

Franklin

d)

Crick

6.

Who discovered that A = T and C = G?

a)

Chargaff

b)

Franklin

c)

Watson & Crick

d)

Griffith

7.

Who took a picture of DNA using X-ray diffraction?

a)

Rosalind Franklin

b)

Watson & Crick

c)

Oswald Avery

d)

Hershey & Chase

8.

Who developed the double-helix model of DNA?

a)

Watson & Crick

b)

Avery

c)

Hershey & Chase

d)

Franklin

9.

Who did Crick do his research with?

a)

Watson

b)

Avery

c)

Hershey

d)

Chase

10.

What is a virus that infects bacteria called?

a)

bacteriophage

b)

infectious virus

c)

transformation

d)

gene change