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Who were the guys who figured out the structure of DNA?
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James Watson and Francis Crick |
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What did Rosalind Franklin contribute to the discovery?
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Rosalind Franklin were using a technique called X-ray crystallography to study molecular structure |
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How do the bases pair in DNA?
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adenine (A) paired only with thymine (T), and guanine (G) paired only with cytosine (C) |
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How did Franklin’s X-ray image and Chargaff’s rule help?
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Franklin’s X-ray crystallographic images of DNA enabled Watson to deduce that DNA was helical |
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What function do the telomeres seem to serve?
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Postpone the shortening of DNA molecules |
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For what do we use genetic engineering?
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Nucleic acid hybridization forms the foundation of virtually every technique used in genetic engineering, the direct manipulation of genes for practical purposes |
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Why do we use PCR?
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is used to provide the specific DNA fragment to be cloned |
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For what can we use the CRISPR-Cas9 system? There are multiple answers to this.
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Cuts double-stranded DNA molecules Repairs a gene that has a mutation |
