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Chapter 12 DNA Vocabulary

Due:  Monday, April 3, 2023
22 points

Across
Scientist who used enzymes to identify DNA as the transforming factor.
Single ring base that bonds to Guanine.
The process of copying DNA.
Bases in DNA that contain nitrogen.
DNA at the tips of chromosomes.
American scientist who helped determine the shape of DNA.
Enzyme that joins nucleotides to help make a new DNA strand.
Scientist who worked with S and R strain bacteria in 1928.
Virus that infects bacteria.
Determined that the amount of adenine in DNA will always equal the amount of thymine, and that the amount of cytosine in a base will always equal the amount of guanine.
The building blocks of nucleic acids.
This is the idea that the two strands of a DNA molecule run in opposite directions.
Down
The genetic molecule responsible for inheritance in all living things.
Single ring base that bonds to Adenine.
When one thing is changed permanently into another.
DNA's shape....
2-ring base that bonds to Cytosine.
Used x-ray diffraction crystallography to take a picture of DNA.
These hold the sugars and phosphate groups of DNA together.
British scientist who helped determine the shape of DNA.
Scientist who studied bacteriophages and identified DNA as the genetic material of living cells.
2-ring base that bonds to Thymine.