Laboratory Procedures and Important Historical Experiments

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Nucleic acid (at the time referred to as "nuclein") was first discovered by whom in 1869?

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Russian biochemist Phoebus Levene is credited with being the first to __________.

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What is the name of the method that allowed Watson and Crick to propose the double-helix structure of DNA?

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Which of the following scientists first discovered the concepts behind dominance, segregation, and independent assortment?

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Frederick Griffith’s 1928 experiment involved two different strains of Pneumococcus bacteria. What method of DNA transfer did the experiment demonstrate?

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What is the name of the laboratory procedure by which a small amount of DNA can be made into many more copies through the use of DNA polymerases and heat cycling?

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In order to amplify the following DNA sequence using PCR, what is an acceptable pair of oligonucleotide primers? (only the sense strand is shown)

ATGATCAGGCTAAATGCTAGTTTACCGGATGAGCAATGACGCGTACCATATAGGCATATCCGATGCCATGATGGCCTACGGATCA

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Which of the following is a technique used to measure expression levels of large numbers of genes at the same time by taking advantage of hybridization between two DNA strands?

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The experiment performed by Hershey and Chase demonstrated which important concept?

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The idea that protein could be hereditary material was proved false in 1952 by which two scientists?

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