Molecular Exam 1

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Created Sep 20, 2012
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Warren Weaver
 
-director of Rocketfeller Foundation-first to use the term molecular biology in 1938
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Eduard Buchner
 
-1860-1917-devlievered the death knell to vitalism when he demostrated that fermentation of...
3
Molecular biology
 
study of the structure and function of proteins
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Central Dogma
 
-envisioned by Crick in 1958-drawn in 1970-solid arrows represent probable transfers, dotted...
5
Fredrich Miescher
 
1844-1895-Successfully developed a method to isolate intact WBC from bandages-identify and...
6
Sidney Altman
 
-discovered RNase P, the enzyme that generates tRNA molecules from longer precursos-first to...
7
Fredrick Sanger
 
developed orignal method of sequencing DNA in 1975-dideoxy 
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Leory Hood
 
-developed modern sequencing technique in 1986 using different fluorescent tags for each nucleotide
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Walter Gilbert
 
discovered different sequencing technique in 1975 that is not used today
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Base pairs
 
3.2 x 10^9
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Protein coding genes
 
20,488
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Percentage of human base pairs in human genome that code for polypeptides
 
1.5%
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Albrecht Kossel
 
-ID nucleotides
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Phoebus Levene
 
-tetranucleotide hypothesis
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william astbury
 
1938-first to study DNA by x-ray diffraction-determined that bases were at right angles to...
16
Alexander Todd
 
1951-used synthetic methods and RNase to demonstrate that long polypeptie chains connected...
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Maurice Wilkins
 
-first to study DNA seriously using x-ray diffraction-took sharp DNA photos-saw 2 forms of...
18
Rosalind Franklin
 
-showed 2 different DNA diffraction patterns-took photo 51 in may 1952-pattern B was helix
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Jerry Donohue
 
-Feb. 27, 1953-Showed watson the correct tautomers of T and G
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Erwin Chargaff
 
-Analysis of base composition of nucleic acids-measured amounts of dA, dT, dC, dG in DNA to...
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Erwin Schroedinger
 
1933-published what is life-which influcened many physicists into biology
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Watson and Crick
 
-built DNA models to determine final strcuture of DNA-proposed that 2 nucleotide chains are...

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