Genes, Proteins, and Mutations

Why is DNA important?

• it is very small and very complicated
• it's in everything
• it serves as the blueprint for traits of all living things
• because we eat it every day for energy

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What does DNA stand for?

• Deoxyribonucleic acid
• Denitrogenous acid
• Deribonucleic acid
• Diribonucleic acid

Any change in the sequence of DNA is...

• transgenic shift
• Single Genotype
• Monohybrid Trait
• Mutation

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Which statement about DNA is true?

• Different people can have the same copy of DNA in their cells.
  
• DNA is made up of genes that carry hereditary information.
• DNA controls the genotype but not the phenotype of an organism.
  
• DNA controls the genotype only in the second and third generations.
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Mutations affect the ________ of a protein. Because of this the proteins ______ is affected as well. 

• gene, function 
• sequence, gene
• shape,function

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Which is a part of the DNA that consists of a sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrogenous gas?

• DNA
• nucleotide
• base
• mutation

Which are the 4 DNA bases?

• RNA, adenine, thymine, guanine
• uracil, adenine, guanine, thymine,
• adenine, thymine, cytosine guanine
• RNA, DNA, ribosome, protein

These molecules are made up of amino acids.

• proteins
• bases
• ribosomes
• nucleii

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In a DNA molecule, which of the following bases pair together?

• adenine and cytosine
• thymine and adenine
• thymine and guanine
• cytosine and thymine

Which sequence of DNA bases would pair with this partial strand
ATG TGA CAG

• ATG TGA CAG
• TAC ACT GTC
• GTA AGT GAC
• CAT TCA CTG

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