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DNA web resources   Working together using this wiki Questions Sessions Drafts

 

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Working together using this wiki

 

 

Questions

 

1.What is the contribution of each of the following scientists to our understanding of the role of nucleic acids?

a. Fredrick Griffith

http://www.microbiologytext.com/index.php?module=book&func=displayarticle&art_id=33

http://www.bookrags.com/Frederick_Griffith

http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Microtextbook/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=286&page=1

http://www.helium.com/tm/223626

http://library.thinkquest.org/20465/griffith.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Griffith

http://www2.carthage.edu/~pfaffle/hgp/Griffith.html

b. Oswald Avery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Avery

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011425/oswald-avery

http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/resources/timeline/1944_Avery.php

c. Martha Chase and Alfred Hershey

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1969/hershey-bio.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Chase

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Search_for_DNA.html

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio104/dna.htm

http://www.cem.msu.edu/~reusch/virtualtext/nucacids.htm

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Experiments_that_Inspire.html

 

2. What is transformation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_(genetics)

http://www.bookrags.com/research/transformation-gen-04/

http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/resources/transformation1.html

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Transformation_and_DNA.html

 

3. What is a bacteriaphage?

http://www.answers.com/bacteriophage&r=67

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=bacteriophage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/mayer/phage.htm

 

4. What was the contribution of each of the following scientist to our understanding of the structure of DNA?

a. Rosalind Franklin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/franklin.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/20465/franklin.html

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Rosalind_Franklin.html

b. James Watson

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/James_Dewey_Watson.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Watson

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1962/watson-bio.html

c. Francis Crick

http://www.chemheritage.org/classroom/chemach/pharmaceuticals/watson-crick.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/crick_francis.html

d. Erwin Chargaff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Chargaff

http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/people/chargaff.html

http://www.laskerfoundation.org/news/gnn/timeline/1950a.html

 

5. What is DNA replication?

http://www.ncc.gmu.edu/dna/repanim.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_replication

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/dna_replicating.html

 

6. What is a mutation?

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/disorders/mutations/

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/disorders/sloozeworm/mutationbg.cfm

http://www-personal.k-state.edu/~bethmont/mutdes.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation

http://138.192.68.68/bio/Courses/biochem2/DNA/DNAMutations.html

 

7. What is meant by the "Central Dogma of DNA"?

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/central.html

http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/dogma/dogma.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_dogma_of_molecular_biology

http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/~smaloy/MicrobialGenetics/problems/genes/DNA-RNA-prot/

http://uah.edu/~carter/protien/dogma.htm

 

8. What is RNA?

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/RNA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA

http://www.rnabase.org/primer/

http://www.alsforums.com/definitions/rna.html

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/rna.html

 

9. What is transcription?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_(genetics)

http://www-class.unl.edu/biochem/gp2/m_biology/animation/gene/gene_a2.html

http://www.usask.ca/education/coursework/mcvittiej/bio30unit1/overheads/1.28.htm

 

10. What is translation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_(biology)

http://www.johnkyrk.com/DNAtranslation.html

http://www.glasglow.com/e2/tr/Translation_(biology).html

http://www.sparknotes.com/biology/molecular/translation/section3.rhtml

http://genome.pfizer.com/glossary.cfm

 

11. What is protein synthesis?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/protein%20synthesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_biosynthesis

http://www.lewport.wnyric.org/JWANAMAKER/animations/protein%20synthesis%20-%20long.html

http://nature.ca/genome/03/c/10/03c_13a_e.cfm

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/student_view0/chapter15/animations.html

http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objid=AP1302 

 

12. What is the human genome?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:Human+genome&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/primer/genetics_genome.html

http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/39/concept/index.html

 

 

 

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Sessions

1. Friday March 30, 2007

 

 

 

Drafts