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What is the Structure of DNA

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1. Who studied the crystal structure of DNA using X-rays?

Wilkins and Franklin

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2. The threadlike structures of DNA.

chromosomes

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3. What is the basic units of hereditary information?

genes

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4. Who built the first correct 3-D model of DNA?

Watson and Crick

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5. What do you call the smaller subunits of DNA?

nucleotides

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6. What is the other term for twisted ladder?

double helix

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7. What base pairs with guanine?

cytosine

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8. What base pairs with adenine?

thymine

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9. What do you call the unzipped strand of protein?

parent strand

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10. When the protein strand zips back, what is being formed?

daughter strand

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11. What are the four bases of DNA?

guanine, cytosine, adenine, and thymine

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12. How does the structure of DNA allow it to copy itself?

DNA unzips and copies, forming two daughter strands

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13. Why is it important for proteins to error check the DNA before it is zipped back up?

Proofreading the DNA before zipping it up ensures that the cell will continue to function properly

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14. What might happen if your cells misread those instructions?

The instructions may not work and the cell be harmed.

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