DNA/RNA and DNA Components

Genes located in your DNA code for ___________. This macromolecule gives organisms their traits.

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What are the three structural components of a nucleotide

• Phosphate group

• Pentose sugar

• Oxygen group

• nitrogenous base

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

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

• Double circular

• Double Helix

• Double straight

Each section of DNA that codes for a protein is called a...

• Chromosome

• RNA

• Gene

• Enzyme

What will the matching sequence be on a strand that reads AAGCTAT?

• AACGATA
• TTCGTTA
• CCTGATA
• TTCGATA

DNA codes for...

• bases
• proteins
• amino acids
• phosphates

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In RNA, Adenine will pair with what nitrogen base?

• Thymine

• Guanine

• Cytosine

• Uracil

What is the job of ribosomes?

• make proteins

• store energy

• create covalent bonds

• create hydrogen bonds

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