1.What tautomeric form of the bases do Watson and Crick predict in their structure?
2.How many nucleotide pairs (residues) occur in DNA before the helix repeats itself?
3. According to their model, How far apart(vertical distance) are the residues on each chain?
1. Watson and Crick predict keto form of the bases in their structure, forming an adenine-thymine pair and a guanine-cytosine pair.
2. 10 nucleotide pairs occur in DNA before the helix repeats itself.
3. According to their model, the residues are 0.34 nm or 3.4 A apart (vertical distance) on each chain.
1.What tautomeric form of the bases do Watson and Crick predict in their structure? 2.How many...
13. What are TWO of the insights Watson and Crick had with respect to the structure of DNA? a. DNA is a double-stranded helix held together by A:T or C:G base pairs b. DNA is a helix and has A:T or C:G base pairs c. DNA is a double-stranded helix and the amount of A=T and of G=C d. DNA has two strands in opposite orientation and the amount of A=T and of G=C 14. Griffith's experiment injecting a mixture...
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2points each 1. Describe the DNA helix proposed by Watson and Crisk A) The Watson and Crick DNA model contains two DNA polymer strands coiled around a B) The strands are oriented in opposite directions, from S to 3 (antiparallel), and the two C) The sugar-phosphate backbone is located on the outside. The base pairs are stacked in the common axis. strands are twisted in a right-handed coil. center of the helix and are stabilized by specific hydrogen bonds...
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DNA - MULTIPLE CHOICE (2 pts) How many nurogenous bases are there in DNA? AT B) 2 C)3 ) - Which of the following is not a nitrogenous base found in DNA? A) Adenine B) Cytosine C) Guanine Uracil DNA is made up of Nitrogenous base pairs. The bases bond in which of the following patterns? A) Adenine - Thymine: Cytesine Guanine B) Adenine - Cytosinc; Guanine - Thymine C) Adenine - Guanine; Cytosine - Thymine D)...
25. Mendel's factors undergo segregation and independent assortment. How is this illustrated in the chromosomes during Meiosis I? 26. Explain how these inheritance patterns are considered non-Mendelian. Incomplete Dominance . Multiple Alleles • Codominance X-linked Linkage . Pedigrees - Genetic Disorders 27. What is non-disjunction and how does it affect the chromosome distribution during meiosis? 28. What is a karyotype and what does it allow you to do? 29. Fill in the circles and squares to illustrate the following inheritance...
7. Your genes partly determine your physical characteristics, but the environment you live in also plays a role. a. True--Some genes can be altered by environmental features. b. False--Your genes completely determine your physical characteristics. c. Scientists aren't sure what determines an individual's characteristics d. False-The environment plays no role e. True-In fact the environment always alters genetic characteristics. 8. Choose the correct sequence starting with the smallest unit: a. DNA, gene, allele, chromosome, nucleotide b. Chromosome, gene, allele, nucleotide,...
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DNA, Genes,and Protein Synthesis Activity 13: 2. The bases that interact with each other are called complementary bases. this definition and your answers to 1 complete the following: a. Thiamine (T) is the complementary base of b. Cytosine (C) is the complementary base of c. Adenine (A) is the complementary base of d. Guanine (G) is the complementary base of Based on 3. Shown below is the nucleotide sequence for one strand of a stretch of...
What are the three functional groups that comprise a nucleotide? What do nucleotides have in common with amino acids or simple sugars? When the structure of DNA was first elucidated, many biologists quickly saw how this structure explained the passage of information from one generation to another. How does the structure of DNA explain generation-to-generation flow of information? In other words, give a brief description of the structure of DNA and tell how this structure allows for replication. Which of...
Part D Now can you predict nucleotide quantities in a hypothetical scenario with more than four different types of nucleotides? An alien species was discovered that has DNA comprised of 6 diferent bases: binds to C: A binds to and X binds to Y Approximately 10% of this allen genome is comprised of nucleotides containing Cand 22% is comprised of nucleotides containing Y. Given this information, calculate the percentage of the alien genome that is comprised of nucleotides containing GTA...
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Read page 196-197 and figure 6.20. regarding Meselson and
Stahl’s experiment regarding DNA replication. And Answer the
following question
If you are using this radioactive technique in mouse cells,
what would happen in each phase of G1, S, G2, mitosis and meiosis
assuming that you are grown cells in 15N medium for many
generations and cells in G1are then switched to 14N medium?
G1
S
G2...
1 Overview and Background Many of the assignments in this course will introduce you to topics in computational biology. You do not need to know anything about biology to do these assignments other than what is contained in the description itself. The objective of each assignment is for you to acquire certain particular skills or knowledge, and the choice of topic is independent of that objective. Sometimes the topics will be related to computational problems in biology, chemistry, or physics,...