DNA Structure and Function

Recall cards on DNA structure and function: the historical experiments identifying DNA as the genetic material (Miescher, Griffith, Avery-MacLeod-McCarty, Hershey-Chase, Chargaff), the structure of the double helix (nucleotides, purines and pyrimidines, base pairing, antiparallel strands, phosphodiester bonds, helix dimensions), DNA packaging (supercoiling, nucleosomes, heterochromatin and euchromatin), sequencing and gel electrophoresis, the semi-conservative model and the Meselson-Stahl experiment, DNA replication in prokaryotes and eukaryotes (origins, forks, helicase, primase, polymerases, leading and lagging strands, Okazaki fragments, telomeres and telomerase), and DNA repair and mutation types.

Source: OpenStax Biology 2e (2018), Chapter 14, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.