BIOL 1001 Chapter : Biology Ch11

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Nucleic acids: information storage and transmission: polymers of nucleotides linked together by dehydration synthesis reactions. Genes: the units of heredity, made of nucleic acid (dna) Nucleotides: the building block molecules of a nucleic acid and are composed of a sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base. Evidence that dna is the genetic material: in a eukaryotic cell, the dna content doubles prior to cell division, during cell division the doubled dna is divided equally between the. Erwin chargaff found that: the base composition (# of a, t, g, c) varied btwn species. Watson and crick: discovered the double helix. Rosalind franklin: understanding the structure of dna, real founder of double helix. Dna: length- 2 meters, must be contained within a cell about 10 microns in diameter. Human geneome project: mission to completely map out a person"s dna, 98. 5% of dna does nothing, accounts for dna fingerprint, mini-satelite sequences forensic dna analysis, available in 1987.

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