Nucleic Acids & Protein Synthesis STAAR Review

What is the monomer of nucleic acids?

• Glycerol
• Monosaccharides
• Amino Acids
• Nucleotides

What are the components of a nucleotide?

• nitrogen base, phosphate group, and pentose sugar
• pentose sugar, purine, and pyrimidine
• nitrogen base and a phosphate group
• DNA, phosphate group, monosaccharide

RNA contains the sugar...

• Deoxyribose
• Glucose
• Ribose
• Lipids

Nitrogen Bases for DNA:

• Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Uracil

• Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Phosphate

• Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine

• Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Sulfur

Nitrogen bases for RNA:

• Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Uracil

• Adenine Guanine, Cytosine, and Sulfur

• Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine

• Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Phosphate

Which Nitrogen bases go together?

• Adenine and Cytosine

• Adenine and Thymine

• Cytosine and Guanine

• Thymine and Guanine

Steps or rungs of ladder, are made up of:

• Nitrogen containing bases that connect in center by weak hydrogen bonds.

• Nitrogen containing bases that connect in the center by carbohydrate bonds

• Nitrogen containing bases that connect in the center by weak phosphate bonds

• Nitrogen containing bases that connect in the center by strong phosphate bonds

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Sides or backbones of DNA molecules are made up of?

• Alternating sugars-phosphates

• Nitrogen and Phosphate

• Alternating sugar-sulfur

• Carbon and Hydrogen

If AAGAGG went through DNA replication, the complementary bases would be....

• TTCTCC
• UUCUCC

 Which of these is not found in DNA?

• adenine
• thymine
• phosphate
• ribose