{Body}scientific method

idea
hypothesis
theory
law
Ockham’s Razor
Gregor Mendel
paradigm shift
self cross
Why peas are similar in a pod.
pedigree
propositus
dominant
recessive
twins
identical twins
Huntington’s Disease
Achondroplasia
polydactyly
Giant from Gath
Mendel’s five point plan
transformation
transforming principle
Frederich Griffith
Dipplococcus pneumoniae
Streptococcus pneumoniae
IIR
IIS
Avery
MacLeod
McCarty
proof of the transforming principle
Hershey
Chase
T2 phage
35S
32P
phage ghost
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat
B Singer
Holmes ribgrass
tobacco mosaic virus
evidence DNA is the genetic material
data in
model
verification
Friedrick Miescher
Phoebus A. Levene
Erwin Chargaff
Chargaff’s rule
William Atsbury
Rosalind Franklin
Maurice Wilkins
3.4 Angstrom repeat
unit cell
20 Angstroms
34 Angstroms
Francis Crick
James Watson
ribose
deoxyribose
sides and tides
dCTP
CTP etc.
predictions
base pairing
double helix
DNA
RNA
Protein
alpha helix
anti-parallel
major groove
minor groove
purine
pyrimidine
verification of model
semi-conservative
conservative
disperse
15N
CsCl2
proof
5-bromouracil
Herbert Taylor
melt DNA
hyperchromaticity
reassociation
plot Tm vs G+C
cot
genome
genome complexity
copy number
repetative DNA
polyAT
mouse satellite
MS-2
T4
Karyotype
FISH
electrophoresis
Southern Blot
size markers
contact print
autoradiogram
regulatory region
coding region
termination
transcription
intron
exon
intron early hypothesis
intron late hypothesis
Jeffrey Palmer
Walter Gilbert
splicing
transcription
translation
nascent polypeptide
message
cap
Philip White
F. C. Steward
Dolly
GMOs good or bad reasons
cloning
chemical evolution
endosymbiotic
Melvin Calvin
Harold Urey
Stanley L. Miller
Charles Darwin
Louis Pasteur
exobiology
age of earth
Jan Baptiste von Helmont
Lynn Margulis
Brocks
first eukaryote
Arthur Kornberb
primer
template
dNTP
John Cairns
pol1
pol3
DNA polymerase
5’->3’ polymerization
5’->3’exonuclease activity, significance
proof that DNA grows 5’->3’
replication bubble
E. coli
theta structures
primase
ligase
nuclease
chain elongation
telemerase
fork
Ori
ARS
leading strand
lagging strand
bidirectional
single strand binding proteins
gyrase
nearest neighbor
snake venom phospho diesterase
bovine spleen phospho diesterase
viral chromosomes
circular permuted rod
unique sequence
ring
lambda
sticky ends
human mitochondrion
compact coding
AT islands
multiple circles
chloroplast DNA
direct repeats
inverted repeat
chromosome
TIGR
histones
nuclein
histone-DNA complex
solenoids
nucleosome
scaffold proteins
sars
nucleosome distribution
centromere
painting chromosomes
t-loops
telemerase
mitosis
cell cycle
cyclin
cohesin
separim
s-phase
meiosis
organelle chromosomes
prophase I
leptotene
pachytene
zygotene
diplotene
dictyotene
diakinesis
metaphase I
anaphase I
telophase I
interphase I
prophase II
metaphase II
anaphase II
telephase II
synapsis
synaptonemal complex
crossing over

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This web site is provided for instruction in Botany and Zoology 342

by Kenneth G. Wilson,
Professor of Botany
Miami University
wilsonkg@muohio.edu