DNA & Mutations

What is the basic shape of DNA?

• Single stranded

• Double helix

• triple stranded

What are the three structural components of a nucleotide

• Phosphate group

• Pentose sugar

• Oxygen group

• nitrogenous base

_____________: The primary physical shape of double-stranded DNA molecules

• Double circular

• Double Helix

• Double straight

The process in which a strand of DNA is copied into an RNA strand for the purpose of protein synthesis

• Translation

• Replication

• Transcription

• Mutation

____________: The process by which the sequence of nucleotides in a messenger RNA is converted by a ribosome and transfer RNAs into a polypeptide with a specific sequence of amino acids

• Translation

• Replication

• Transcription

• Mutation

_____________: A single linear or circular piece of DNA that contains some or all of an organism’s genes

• DNA

• Gene

• Chromosome

• Chromatin

_____________: A change in the DNA sequence of a chromosome

• Translation

• Replication

• Transcription

• Mutation

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

_____________: The process in which a DNA molecule is copied to produce two identical DNA molecules

• Translation

• Replication

• Transcription

• Mutation

_____________: A double stranded nucleic acid that holds genetic information; composed of the nucleotides adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine

• RNA

• Chromatin

• DNA

• Chromosome

_____________: A single stranded nucleic acid that can be used to make proteins; composed of the nucleotides adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil

• RNA

• Chromosome

• DNA

• Chromatin