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10 Cards in this Set
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What does DNA stand for?
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Deoxyribonucleic acid
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Who discovered DNA?
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Johannes Friedrich Miescher
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How did the person discovered DNA? |
He took bandages, scraped off the puss, put it in a tube, waited until it separated, and then chemically analyzed it.
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What did he call the material that he extracted and what do we call it today? |
He called the material that he extracted “nucleon”, now we call it nucleic acid.
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What is DNA made of?
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Nucleotides, which is made up of four nitrogen bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine
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What are the three jobs of DNA?
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DNA stores information.
DNA copies information. DNA transmits information. |
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Who is Johannes Friedrich Miescher?
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He discovered DNA.
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Deoxyribonucleic acid stands for.
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DNA
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Nucleotides, which is made up of four nitrogen bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine, makes up what?
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DNA |
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When was DNA discovered |
DNA was discovered in 1869
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