NAME: ___________________________ PERIOD:________

DNA QUIZ

1.) Frederick Griffith Oswald Avery Hershey & Chase

Explain
what they
discovered
about
DNA’s
structure!

2.) Griffith took heat-killed virulent/avirulent bacteria and mixed it with live
virulent/avirulent bacteria and somehow, to his surprise, ended up with a dead mouse.
(circle one/or the other)

3.) Oswald Avery made an extract, and destroyed with enzymes the following molecules
in the process of elimination (circle all that are correct):
a. lipids
b. cell walls
c. carbohydrates
d. RNA
e. DNA
f. protein
g. bacteriophages
h. your mom

4.) Chargaff’s rules mean that the percentages of

A = ________, G = ________, T =_________, and C =___________.

5.) Hydrogen bonds between certain bases are rather unique, so that they can ONLY bond
with their complementary base. Show me why. Or draw it for me. (Hint- think how
many hydrogen bonds they might have…)
6.) Rosalind Franklin suggested that the DNA molecule
a. has four bases
b. is helix shaped
c. can be replicated with X-rays
d. had three strands

7.) Hershey and Chase radioactively labeled these two molecules within phages: (circle
the correct answers)
a. sodium
b. phosphorus
c. sulfur
d. sugar

8.) Label The DNA molecule below: