DNA and Genetics

Match the nitrogenous bases to the corresponding bases.

• cytosine

• Cytosine

• adenine

• adenine

• guanine

• Guanine

• thymine

• thymine

​ (a)   used ​ (b)   ​ to find the shape of DNA.

• Rosalind Franklin
• X-Rays
• Erwin Chargaff
• UV-Rays
• James Watson
• Francis Crick

Put the three parts of a nucleotide in order from the sides of the ladder to the rungs (as we learned in the notes).

• phosphate

• base

• sugar

Match the following:

• Cigarette Smoke

• Mutation - missing base

• Asbetsos

• Mutagen - insulation and tiles

• Deletion

• Mutagen - causes lung cancer

• Substitution

• Mutation - different base used

• X-Rays

• Mutagen - (Franklin)

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The scientific name for the shape of DNA is

This organelle makes protein.

• endoplasmic reticulum

• ribosome

• mitochondria

• golgi apparatus

Three base pairs code for one

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Match the following

• A=T

  C=G

• Gregor Mendel

• Father of Heredity (peas)

• Erwin Chargaff

• discovered the shape of DNA

• Rosalind Franklin

• first model of DNA - mean to Franklin

• Francis Crick

• first model of DNA

• James Watson