Term
|
Definition
| Deoxyribonucleic Acid. DNA is genetic material that decides inherited characteristicks |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| One set of instructions for an inherited trait |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Made of a sugar, phosphate and a base. they are all identical except for the base. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| There are 4 bases, adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine. Each has a different shape and is often referred to as just their first letter. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The shape in which DNA looks like. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The pairing of bases allows the cell to replicate itself, or make copies of DNA. In replication a DNA molecule is split down the middle. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Each base bonds with one other base, making it complementry of eachother, nucleotids can be complementry aswell. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Franklin used something called X-Ray diffraction to make images of DNA. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Chargaff discovered that adenine in DNA is always equal to that of thymine. He also found out the same thing for guanine and cytosine. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Watson and Crik built a model of DNA that matched Chargaff's rule and looked like Farnklin's images. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Adenine bases only pair with thymine bases and guanine bases only pair with cytosine bases. |
|
|
