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Which is the genetic material? DNA or protein?
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DNA
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DNA is made up of what?
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a deoxyribose sugar, a phosphate group, and one of four different nitrogenous bases (adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine)
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What dis Rosalind Franklin discover about DNA?
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that it was a helix
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What did Erwin Chargoff discover?
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that the number of adenines is always equal to the number of thymines, and that the number of cytosines is always equal to the number of guanines.
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Pairing complimentary bases: What do these letters pair with?
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T with A (and vice versa) G with C (and vice versa)
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transcription and translation: view picture (fill in words)
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from top to bottom -DNA, transcription, RNA, translation, protein
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What does transcripion do? Where does it take place?
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produces genetic messages in the form of RNA. Takes place in the nucleus
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What happens in translation? Why is it called translation?
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the information in the messanger rna is used to create a protein. It is called translation because information is translater from one language (RNA) to another (protein) but the meaning remains the same
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