DNA Station Lab Questions

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) DNA

,

(b) Both

,

(c) RNA

• Bases are Bases are: G,C,A,T

• • Bases are G,C,A,U

• • made up of hundreds or a few thousand nucleotides

• Irregular varied shape

• Regular uniform shape

• • Made of nucleotides

• • Nucleotides form complementary base pairs

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

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Which amino acid is next?

• CGG, Alanine

• GUA, aspartic acid

• AGA, Serine

• GCC, Arginine

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-6

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

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

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

• True

• False

Label the diagram using the words provided by putting them in the correct box:

a

b

c

d

e

Translation

mRNA

DNA

Transcription

Protein

Answer explanation

Tags

6C

The mRNA strand UAC codes for

The mRNA strand CCC codes for