Human Genetics, 10th Edition, (Lewis)

Chapter 9: DNA Structure and Replication

Learning Outcomes


9.1

 

Experiments Identify and Describe the Genetic Material

1.

  

Describe the experiments that showed that DNA and not protein is the genetic material.

2.

  

Explain how Watson and Crick deduced the structure of DNA.

9.2

 

DNA Structure

3.

  

List the components of a DNA nucleotide building block.

4.

  

Explain how nucleotides join in two chains to form a DNA molecule.

9.3

 

DNA Replication—Maintaining Genetic Information

5.

  

Explain how researchers deduced that DNA replication is semiconservative.

6.

  

List the steps of DNA replication.

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