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Scientist Contributions to the Discovery of DNA

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first to isolate nucleic acid, called it nuclein.

a)

Miescher

b)

Levene

c)

Griffith

d)

Mendell

e)

Chargoff

2.

Who discovered that there are two types of nucleic acid (DNA & RNA)

a)

Hershey & Chase

b)

Avery, MacLeod & McCarthy

c)

Griffith

d)

Levene

3.

Who described the Transforming Principle - that diseased genes can be spread to healthy individuals

a)

Miescher

b)

Griffiths

c)

Watson & Crick

d)

Chargaff

4.

Who explained the Transforming Principle using DNA as agent of the disease

a)

Levene

b)

Franklin & Wilkins

c)

Avery, MacLeod & McCarthy

d)

Hershey & Chase

e)

Griffith

5.

Who discovered that the proportion of A is same as T and proportion of G is same as C in DNA

a)

Chargaff

b)

Hersey & Chase

c)

Avery, MacLeod & McCarthy

d)

Miescher

6.

Who showed that DNA and not proteins were the genetic material?

a)

Griffith

b)

Avery, MacLeod & McCarthy

c)

Franklin & Wilkins

d)

Hersey & Chase

7.

Who used X-Ray crystallography to see DNA structure?

a)

Franklin & Wilkins

b)

Watson & Crick

c)

Hershey & Chase

d)

Avery, MacLeod & McCarthy

8.

Who discovered discovered the helical structure of DNA and that bases were on the inside and sugar phosphates on the outside?

a)

Griffith

b)

Levene

c)

Watson & Crick

d)

Franklin & Wilson

9.

Who produced a structural model of the double helix?

a)

Watson & Crick

b)

Franklin & Wilkins

c)

Miescher

d)

Mendell

10.

Who described the 3 components of DNA & RNA as sugar, phosphate group & nitrogenous bases?

a)

Hersey & Chase

b)

Levene

c)

Mendell

d)

Griffith

11.

Who discovered that dead pathogenic bacteria passed on their disease-causing properties to live, non-pathogenic bacteria?

a)

Levene

b)

Griffith

c)

Hershey & Chase

d)

Miescher

12.

Who worked with a "new" technology called radioactive labelling?

a)

Watson & Crick

b)

Hersey & Chase

c)

Griffith

d)

Avery, MacLeod, & McCarthy

13.

Who used x-ray crystallography to analyze the structure of DNA?

a)

Franklin & Wilkins

b)

Watson & Crick

c)

Hersey & Chase

d)

Avery, MacLeod & McCarthy

14.

Who received the Nobel Prize for their work determining the structure of DNA?

a)

Watson, Crick, Wilkins & Franklin

b)

Watson, Crick & Wilkins

c)

Watson & Crick

d)

Franklin & Wilkins