DNA and DNA Replication

What is the main function of DNA?

• Create energy for the cell

• Instructions for making sugars

• Instructions for making protein

• Use light to create food

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

DNA coils around histones to form this long DNA structure:

• Monosaccharide

• Chromosome

• Polypeptide

• Nucleotide

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What shape of DNA was first discoved by Rosalind Franklin?

• Double Helix

• Pentagon

• Linear

• Tetrahedral

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide?

• phosphate, nitrogen base, and sugar

• Sugar, protein, and lipid

• oxygen, nitrogen base, and chloride

• adenine, ribose, and 3 phosphate groups

What do you call a segment of DNA that codes for a trait?

• Codon

• Chromosome

• Nucleotide

• Gene

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What part of the nucleotide is the orange pentagon?

• Phosphate group

• Nitrogenous base

• Deoxyribose sugar

• Hydrogen bonds

If a DNA strand is 35 % Cytosine, what else must be true?

• It is 35% Thymine

• It is 35% Guanine

• It is 25% Cytosine

• It is 25% Adenine

What sequence of bases would complement the ones in the image?

• TGAG

• AATC

• CGTA

• CGAA