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DNA Scientists

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Built models to determine that DNA was a double helix shape with base pairs A-T and G-C in rungs between the sugar/phosphate backbone of DNA.

a)

Watson & Crick

b)

Franklin

c)

Wilkins

d)

Pauling

e)

Chargaff

2.

Worked on DNA imaging techniques and published Franklin's x-ray crystallography image of DNA

a)

Watson & Crick

b)

Franklin

c)

Wilkins

d)

Pauling

e)

Chargaff

3.

Provided clear x-ray crystallography images of DNA

a)

Watson & Crick

b)

Franklin

c)

Wilkins

d)

Pauling

e)

Chargaff

4.

Discovered that there was the same amount of A and T in a cell, and C and G in a cell.

a)

Watson & Crick

b)

Franklin

c)

Wilkins

d)

Pauling

e)

Chargaff

5.

Using x-ray diffraction to determine the structure of a crystal, such as DNA

a)

x-ray crystallography

b)

gas chromatography

c)

chromatography

d)

gel electrophoresis

6.

A pair of parallel strands that twist together about an axis

a)

nucleotide

b)

double helix

c)

base pair

d)

esther bonds

7.

5 carbon sugars and phosphates linked together through chemical bonds to provide the structural framework for nucleotides

a)

chromosome

b)

nucleotide

c)

phosphate-sugar backbone

d)

enzyme

8.

Base pairs (correctly matched)

a)

A-G and C-T

b)

A-C and G-T

c)

A-T and G-C

d)

C-A and T-G

9.

made up of a long strand of DNA that is bonded to proteins in a way that makes them condense/fold to form chromosomes

a)

genetics

b)

chromosome

c)

proteins

d)

DNA

10.

a piece of a chromosome that is composed of specific nucleotide sequences of DNA

a)

chromatid

b)

nucleotide

c)

gene

d)

circular DNA

11.

deoxyribonucleic acid: the molecule that contains the basic instructions for life.

a)

gene

b)

chromosome

c)

DNA

d)

nucleotide