Unit 8: DNA Vocab Review

What is the principle that bonds in DNA can form only between adenine and thymine and between guanine and cytosine?

• DNA helicase

• Base pairing

• Nucleotide

• Transformation

What is the genetic material that organisms inherit from their parents?

• DNA polymerase

• Nucleotide

• Deoxyribonucleic acid

• Telomere

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Which enzyme unzips DNA before replication starts?

• DNA helicase

• Nucleic acid

• Double helix

• Replication

What is the principal enzyme involved in DNA replication?

• DNA helicase

• DNA polymerase

• Telomere

• Transformation

What is the spiral structure of DNA, like a spiral staircase, called?

• Nucleotide

• Base pairing

• Double helix

• Nucleic acid

What is a macromolecule containing hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus (CHONP)?

• Nucleic acid

• DNA helicase

• Telomere

• Replication

What is the subunit of nucleic acids which are made of a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base?

• Nucleotide

• Transformation

• DNA polymerase

• Double helix

What is the process of making a copy of DNA prior to cell division?

• Transformation

• Replication

• Base pairing

• DNA helicase

What is the repetitive DNA at the end of a eukaryotic chromosome called?

• Nucleic acid

• Telomere

• DNA polymerase

• Nucleotide

What is the process in which one strain of bacteria is changed by a gene or genes from another, different strain of bacteria?

• Replication

• Transformation

• Base pairing

• DNA helicase