DNA Structure and Function Review

Label this nucleotide correctly

a

b

c

Phosphate Group

Sugar named deoxyribose

Nitrogen Base

Match the following

• Nitrogen Bases

• Provides information in DNA

• Nucleotides

• Shape of DNA

• Blueprint for making proteins

• Provides support for DNA

• Double Helix

• DNA is made of ________

• Sugar-Phosphate Backbone

• DNA is important because it is a

Match the following

• Adenine

• Thymine

• Thymine

• Adenine

• Guanine

• Guanine

• Cytosine

• Cytosine

Label this DNA segment

a

b

Nitrogen Bases

Sugar-Phosphate Backbone

Correctly label this DNA segment's bases

a

b

c

d

A

C

G

T

Which best describes the role of mRNA in protein synthesis? 

• mRNA brings amino acids to the ribosome where they are connected to construct a protein.
• mRNA forms the peptide bonds connecting amino acids together to construct a protein 
• mRNA decodes the sequence of tRNA into the amino acids used to construct a protein
• mRNA brings the code of DNA to the ribosome where it is used to construct a protein

Which best describes the information contained in genes? 

• instructions for assembling pyrimidines
• instructions for assembling purines
• instructions for assembling proteins
• instructions for assembling plasmids

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

What is the outcome of DNA transcription and translation?

• Make muscles

• Make protein

• Make cells

• Make DNA

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

What is the basic unit (monomer) of DNA?

• Phosphate Group

• Nucleotide

• Amino Acid

• Monosaccharide

What is true of DNA?

• Double Helix

• Contains Thymine

• Deoxyribose Sugar

• Ribose Sugar