DNA Replication

The twisted ladder shape of DNA is referred to as a ....

• Twizzler candy
• twisted ladder
• double helix
• yo mama

Guanine bonds with ______________.

• Adenine
• Guanine
• Cytosine
• Thymine

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

What does DNA stand for?

• Deoxyribosenucleic acid

• Deribosenucleic acid

• Deoxyribose

• Nucleic acid

Wrapping of negatively charged DNA around positively charged histone octamer is called

• Nucleosome

• Chromatin

• Chromosome

• Histone

DNA replication results in

• three identical copies of each chromosome

• 23 different copies of each chromosome

• 46 identical copies of each chromosome

• two identical copies of each chromosome

The enzyme that unzips the DNA to prepare for replication

• helicase
• replicase
• polymerase
• synthase

A scientist observes a base sequence of AGCTAGCTAGCT.  Which of the following would be the complimentary strand?

• TGCATGCATGCA
• TCGATCGATCGA
• TAGCTAGCTAGC
• TTAAGGCCTTCC

DNA replication results in two DNA molecules,

• each one with two original strands
• each one with two new strands
• each one with one new strand and one original strand
• one with two new strands and the other with two original strands

In what phase of the cell cycle does DNA replication take place?

• G1
• S
• G2
• M