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History of DNA

Total questions: 7

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who proposed that DNA was not a protein?

a)

Oswald Avery

b)

James Watson

c)

Martha Chase

d)

Harry Styles

2.

Whose experiment?

a)

Frederick Griffith

b)

Maurice Wilkins & Rosalind Franklin

c)

Alfred Hershey & Martha Chase

d)

James Watson & Francis Crick

e)

Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty

3.

Whose experiment?

a)

Frederick Griffith & Oswald Avery

b)

Maurice Wilkins & Rosalind Franklin

c)

Alfred Hershey & Martha Chase

d)

James Watson & Francis Crick

e)

Erwin Chargaff

4.

Scientists involved in determining that DNA was the hereditary molecule.

a)

Frederick Griffith, Oswald Avery

b)

Maurice Wilkins & Rosalind Franklin

c)

Alfred Hershey & Martha Chase

d)

James Watson & Francis Crick

e)

Erwin Chargaff

5.

Despite the work of Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty, most scientists still thought heredity was carried in

a)

DNA

b)

RNA

c)

proteins

d)

carbohydrates

e)

lipids

6.

In what year was the structure of the DNA molecule determined?

a)

1928

b)

1944

c)

1952

d)

1953

7.

What is the shape of the DNA molecule?

a)

chromosome

b)

chromatin

c)

double helix

d)

triple helix

e)

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