DNA Basics

What is the monomer of nucleic acids?

• Fatty acids

• Monosaccharides

• Amino Acids

• Nucleotides

What are the components of a nucleotide?

• nitrogen base, phosphate group, and 5-carbon sugar

• 5 carbon sugar, purine, and pyrimidine

• nitrogen base and a phosphate group

• DNA, phosphate group, monosaccharide

Guanine bonds with ______________.

• Adenine

• Guanine

• Cytosine

• Thymine

What will the matching sequence be on a strand that reads AAGCTAT?

• AACGATA

• TTCGTTA

• CCTGATA

• TTCGATA

The building block of nucleic acids are nucleotides.  Nucleotides are composed of a sugar, a phosphate group, and a _________________ base.

• oxygen

• hydrogen

• nitrogen

• carbon

Identify #2.

• nitrogen base

• phosphate group

• deoxyribose sugar

• nucleotide

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

What part of the nucleotide is labled "A"

• Phosphate

• Nitrogenous Base

• Protein

• Sugar (Deoxyribose or Ribose)

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

What part of the nucleotide is labled "B"

• Phosphate

• Nitrogenous Base

• Protein

• Sugar (Deoxyribose or Ribose)

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Which of the following bases would not be found in DNA?

• Adenine

• Uracil

• Cytosine

• Guanine

How many nucleotides make up a codon?

• 1

• 3

• 5

• 15