DNA Station Lab Questions

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) DNA

,

(b) Both

,

(c) RNA

• • Nucleotides form complementary base pairs

• Irregular varied shape

• • made up of hundreds or a few thousand nucleotides

• • Each base is paired with another along the entire length of the two strands

• Regular uniform shape

• Bases are Bases are: G,C,A,T

• • Bases are G,C,A,U

• • Made of nucleotides

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

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During Transcription, cells make a copy of a gene out of____

During translation they use that mRNA copy as a blueprint to build ________ out of amino acids.

• DNA

• tRNA

• proteins

• genes

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Which amino acid is next?

• CGG, Alanine

• GUA, aspartic acid

• AGA, Serine

• GCC, Arginine

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What is the complementary RNA base pair for: ATCGAA

do not leave any spaces!

The sequence of amino acids determins what two things?

• final shape of a gene

• The complementary base pairs

• the function of the protein

• the function of the ribosome

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

The codon chart demonstrates that more than one codon can potentially code for the same amino acid.

• True

• False

Stop codons can signal the end of a polypeptide. What are the three stop codons?

• GUA

• UAG

• UAA

• UGA

How many different types of amino acides are shown on the codon chart?

• 64

• 20

• 10

• 32

The answer to #8 on the ameoba sisters worksheet is...

• Lysine

• methionine

• Valine

• Proline

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