Unit 3 CBA Review

Which scientist determined that bacteria were capable of transformation via the uptake of DNA from the environment by infecting mice?

• Frederick Griffith
• Rosalind Franklin
• James Watson
• Erwin Chargaff

Rosalind Franklin is best known for...

• Discovering that DNA served as the storage molecule for genetic information
• Using x-ray technology to take pictures of crystallized molecules, including DNA
• Combining all of the available data in the 1950's to determine the structure of DNA
• Discovering that an organism's thymine would always equal its adenine, and that guanine would always equal cytosine

The monomer for nucleic acids is called a/an...

• Amino Acid
• Triglyceride 
• Monosaccharide
• Nucleotide

What are the three components of a DNA nucleotide?

• Amino acid, sugar, hydrogen base
• Amino acid, sugar, sulfur base
• Phosphate, sugar, nitrogenous base
• Phosphate, sugar, sulfur

What sugar is found in DNA?

• Deoxyribose
• Ribose
• Glucose
• Dextrose

What sugar is found in RNA?

• Deoxyribose
• Ribose
• Glucose
• Dextrose

What are the nucleotide bases found in DNA?

• Adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine
• Adenine, uracil, guanine, cytosine
• Uracil, thymine, guanine, cytosine
• Adenine, thymine, uracil, cytosine

Which base is found only in RNA?

• Thymine
• Adenine
• Guanine
• Uracil

In DNA replication, which enzyme unzips the DNA?

• DNA Polymerase
• RNA Polymerase
• Helicase
• Ligase

The following strand of DNA is going to be replicated through complimentary base pairing:
AATGAACAT
Identify the complementary strand.

• UUACUUGUA
• TTACTTGTA
• TTUCTTGTU
• Not enough information to determine