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What were some of the details that Franklin’s and Wilkins’s X-ray diffraction experiments determined about the structure of the DNA molecule?
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Given the information you now know about inheritance, what was responsible for the increased virulence in the R-strain of Streptococcus pneumonia seen by Griffith after it was mixed with heat-killed S strain?
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Describe how the DNA replication process can be completed with such an extremely low error rate.
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Describe the manner in which nucleotide subunits are connected to each other to form the DNA strands.
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If a colleague approaches you with information about the absolute amounts of adenine and cytosine in a DNA sequence, can you also determine the amounts of the other two nucleotides? Explain why, and give an example.
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If your professor gives you a short piece of DNA with a particular sequence of nucleotides, such as (phosphate end)—TTGCTGTAGGTA—(deoxyribose end), what is the complementary strand’s sequence? Identify the two ends (phosphate and deoxyribose) in your answer.
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