DNA/RNA Quiz Review

What is a monomer of nucleic acids made up of a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base

• Nucleotide

• Nucleic Acid

• Codon

• Anticodon

The process of copying process by which a cell duplicates its DNA

• Replication

• Translation

• Transcription

What is the enzyme involved in DNA replication that joins individual nucleotides to produce a DNA molecule

• DNA Polymerase

• RNA Polymerase

• Codon

• mRNA

What is a sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait called?

• Gene

• Replication

• RNA

• DNA Polymerase

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

This is the RNA molecule that carries copies of instructions for the assembly of amino acids into proteins from DNA to the rest of the cell

• mRNA

• rRNA

• tRNA

This is the type of RNA that makes up the major part of ribosome

• rRNA

• mRNA

• tRNA

This is the type of RNA molecule that transfers amino acids to ribosomes during protein synthesis

• tRNA

• mRNA

• rRNA

What is the process in which part of the nucleotide sequence of DNA is copied into a complementary sequence in RNA

• Transcription

• Translation

• Replication

What are the three-nucleotide sequence on messenger RNA that codes for a single amino acid called?

• Codon

• Anticodon

• Translation

• Transcription

What is the process of decoding of a mRNA message into a polypeptide chain (protein) called?

• Translation

• Transcription

• Replication