DNA PS 9

What is a Gene?

• A segment of RNA that encodes for a protein

• A chromosome

• A segment of DNA that encodes for a protein

• Your genome

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Why is DNA important?

• it is very small and very complicated

• it's in everything

• it serves as the blueprint for traits of all living things

• because we eat it every day for energy

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

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Which of the following best describes a DNA molecule?

• double helix

• contains ribose

• made of amino acids

• contains Uracil

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Any change in the sequence of DNA is...

• transgenic shift

• Single Genotype

• Monohybrid Trait

• Mutation

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Mutations can be considered which of the following?

• Harmful

• Neutral

• Beneficial

• Sad

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

An environment becomes colder. Some of the rabbits which live there have a mutation that causes their fur to be longer and thicker allowing them to stay warmer. This is an example of a

• positive mutation

• negative mutation

• neutral mutation

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

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What are the three types of mutation? 

• Insertion, Deletion, Subsitution

• Deletion, Newstion, Subsitution 

• Newstion, Deletion, Insertion 

• Insertion, Newstion, Substitution 

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What pairs with Adenine (A)? 

• Guanine (G)

• Cytosine (C)

• Adenine (A)

• Thymine (T)

What pairs with Thymine (T)?

• Adenine (A)

• Thymine (T)

• Guanine (G)

• Cytosine (C) 

What pairs with Guanine (G)?

• Adenine (A)

• Thymine (T)

• Cytosine (C)

• Guanine (G)