Honors Genetics

An organism’s genetic makeup or allele combination.

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• Beanotype

• Notype

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What is the phenotype of the offspring? (A-Brown hair; a-blond hair)

• 50 % Brown Hair and 50% Blond Hair

• 25 % Brown Hair and 75% Blond Hair

• 75 % Brown Hair and 25% Blond Hair

• 0% Brown Hair and 100% Blond Hair

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This is what DNA stands for

• dinucleotideadenosine

• doublenucleotide acid

• dinucleotide acid

• deoxyribonucleic acid

Deoxyribose is

• the nucleotide of DNA

• the sugar found in DNA

• the sugar found in RNA

• none of the above

Name the three components of the nucleotides that compose DNA.

• sugar, nitrogen base, protein

• sugar, phosphate, hydrogen bond

• phosphate, nitrogen base, hydrogen bond

• sugar, nitrogen base, phosphate

What makes up the “sides” or backbone of the DNA ladder?

• nitrogen bases

• alternating sugars and phosphates

• sugars and bases

• phosphates and bases

What purpose does DNA serve in a cell?

• short-term energy storage

• long-term energy storage

• stores instructions for making proteins and hereditary information

• none of the above

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What about DNA, specifically, determines the traits of an organism and what protein is made?

• the order of the bases

• how many bases

• which cell the DNA is in

• none of the above

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DNA is ___stranded; RNA is ____ stranded

• single;single

• double; single

• double; double

• single; double

In order for genes to be expressed (“made” so to speak), what two processes must occur?

• first translation, then transcription

• first DNA replication, then transcription

• first DNA replication, then transcription, then translation

• first transcription then translation