Race for the Double Helix Questions Answers

Double Helix Answer 20 out of the following 24 questions while viewing the movie. If you do more, you may earn extra credit. The last question will be found in the epilogue, so don’t miss that. Universities and Colleges often fund scientific research. Therefore, attention to the names of some of these universities is in this study guide. 1. What was James Watson’s primary motivation for studying nucleic acids? Fame and fortune 2. Watson won a fellowship from the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis while at University of Indiana. To what British University did he go to work at after receiving this fellowship? Cambridge 3. What was the name of the research laboratory at this university? Cavendish 4. Who was “bright hope”? Crick 5. Who was director and what was his claim to fame? Bragg, Youngest to get a Nobel prize 6. Rosalind Franklin was changing jobs just about the time Watson was meeting his new research partner. At what college did she go to start this new research job? Kings college 7. Where was this college London 8. Who else was doing research on DNA at this college? Maurice Wilkson 9. What did Crick mean when he said “piano, Jim… softly, softly catch a monkey” Be more discrete 10. When Watson meets a researcher from King’s College at Crick’s flat, Crick introduces him by saying: “Maurice has a cuckoo in his nest…” A cuckoo lays its eggs in another bird’s nest and lets the foster mother care for it. Explain what Crick meant this odd statement. Conference or class 11. How did Watson get Rosalind Franklin’s data on DNA? Someone else was doing all the work. 12. Why were they unsuccessful at building the first model? Not enough water 13. How did the director of Watson’s lab view Watson and his partner’s research attempt on DNA? As a failure 14. One of the critical segments of evidence was obtained when Watson and his partner attended a formal dinner party (Not the costume party) Who did they meet at the party and what was the evidence that he told them? Chargoff Linus Pauling had recently won a Nobel Prize for his work on Chemical bonds. 15. Why were Watson and Crick in such a hurry to complete the second model? To do it before Linus Pauling 16. A look at one of Franklin’s pictures provided the team with the necessary information about the number of bases and angles of molecules. Explain how this information was obtained Maurice showed it to him 17. Crick provided the insight about the direction of travel in each DNA chain. Explain what he said about this One goes up the other down. Or in opposite directions. 18. Why is this movie also sold under the title “Race for the double helix”? They were in a race against Linus Pauling. 19. Which member of the team figured out how the bases attach to the deoxyribose sugars? Watson 20. When they had all the pieces of the puzzle, they celebrated by going to a nearby pub. What did mean when they said they had discovered the secret of life? They had discovered the secret of life 21. It took them about a month to build the second model. The paper was submitted to Nature on April 4th and published on April 23. How much actual lab research had Watson and Crick done to complete the model? Almost none 22. What did Crick mean when he said, “It never dies Jim” near the end of the film? It replicates and is semi conservative. It is the same original DNA molecules since the beginning of life. 23. When was the Nobel Prize awarded to Watson and Crick? 1962 24. Why wasn’t Franklin awarded a share of the Nobel Prize? She had died before the Nobel Prize was awarded and it is not awarded to people after they have died.