DNA extra credit

1. DNA is an acronym. What is DNA's "real" name?

Deoxyribonucleic Acid

2. What function does DNA serve?

DNA holds information on how to create an organism & carries the genetic information that is required to construct cells.

3. How was DNA's shape discovered? Give me the name of three scientists who played a role in this discovery? (Hint: I'm looking for the names of two men and one woman).

DNA's shape was discovered with X-ray diffraction, and it was discovered by Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick, and James D. Watson

4. DNA has nucleotide bases, what are the four bases? (Hint: C, G, T, A... what does each letter represent?)

The four bases are thymine, guanine, adenine, and cytosine.

5. In DNA, the four base nucleotides always pair up in a certain way; which letters bond with which?

Cytosine bonds with guanine and thymine pairs up with adenine.