Basics of DNA

Basics of DNA

Ms. Cabrera

Multiple Choice

What are the four nitrogen bases?

• adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine

• adenine, lysine, prolene, guanine

• arganine, cytosine, lysine, purine

• lysine, cytosine, lucine, guanine

Multiple Choice

What is the sugar in DNA called?

• Deoxyribose
• Dantein
• Diglyceride
• Dalvin

Multiple Choice

What is the monomer of nucleic acids?

• Glycerol

• Monosaccharides

• Amino Acids

• Nucleotides

Multiple Choice

Built models to determine that DNA was a double helix shape with base pairs A-T and G-C in rungs between the sugar/phosphate backbone of DNA.

• Watson & Crick

• Franklin

• Wilkins

• Pauling

• Chargaff

Multiple Choice

Provided clear x-ray crystallography images of DNA

• Watson & Crick

• Franklin

• Wilkins

• Pauling

• Chargaff

Multiple Choice

Discovered that there was the same amount of A and T in a cell, and C and G in a cell.

• Watson & Crick

• Franklin

• Wilkins

• Pauling

• Chargaff

Multiple Choice

What are the proper complementary base-pairs?

• A--T and G--C

• A--G and C--T

• G--T and A--C

• A--C and T--G

Multiple Choice

T A G G A C T

The complementary strand is...

• T A G G A C T

• A T G G T G A

• A T C C T G A

• T T C C A G T