ET 4.1 The Double Helix 1/7/25

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Biology
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9th - 12th Grade
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Sailaja Mandalapu
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the key problem that Watson and Crick aimed to solve?
The stability of life
The mutability of life
The arrangement of atoms in biological molecules
The transmission of genetic information
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NGSS.HS-LS3-1
NGSS.HS-LS3-2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which technique did Watson and Crick use to solve the structure of DNA?
X-ray crystallography
Electron microscopy
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Mass spectrometry
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did Oswald Avery's experiments demonstrate about DNA?
It can carry genetic information
It is destroyed by protein-digesting enzymes
It is made of repeated units of sugar and phosphate
It is responsible for the stability of life
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NGSS.HS-LS1-1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who took the famous X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA known as Photo 51?
Maurice Wilkins
Rosalind Franklin
James Watson
Francis Crick
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did Watson and Crick's model of DNA reveal about genetic information?
It is stored in the sequence of bases
It is carried by proteins
It is determined by the arrangement of atoms
It is replicated through X-ray crystallography
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NGSS.HS-LS3-1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did Erwin Chargaff's research on DNA composition reveal?
The amount of adenine is always equal to the amount of thymine
The amount of guanine is always equal to the amount of cytosine
The amount of adenine is always equal to the amount of guanine
The amount of thymine is always equal to the amount of cytosine
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