DNA & RNA Quiz

What are the nucleotides made of?

• Sugar, Phosphate, nitrogen bases

• Phosphate, Adenine, nitrogen base

• Thymine, Adenine, Cytomine

• Phosphate, Nitrogen, Adenine

They discovered the DNA structure...

• Mendel & Crick

• Watson & Crick

• Simon & Garfunkel

• Watson & Simon

What does this picture represent?

• amino acid
• base pairing
• nucleotide
• the DNA molecule

Which does not describe a DNA molecule?

• double helix

• contains thymine as a nitrogenous base

• nucleic acid

• contains uracil as a nitrogenous base

Guanine bonds with ______________.

• Adenine
• Guanine
• Cytosine
• Thymine

Which 2 molecules form the sides (backbone) of the DNA ladder?

• deoxyribose sugar and adenine
• deoxyribose sugar and a hydrogen bond
• deoxyribose sugar and the nucleus
• deoxyribose sugar and phosphate

What are the three components of a nucleotide?

• sugar, hydrogen, nitrogen base
• sugar, oxygen, nitrogen base
• sugar, phosphate, nitrogen base
• sugar, phosphate, protein

A process in which DNA has the unique ability to make an exact copy of itself.

• Replication

• Translation

• Transcription

• Phosphorespiration

Nitrogenous bases are joined by which type of bond?

• polar bonds
• ionic bonds
• covalent bonds
• hydrogen bonds

RNA contains the sugar

• ribose
• deoxyribose
• glucose
• lactose