Chapter 14 Gene Expression and Regulation

What are the three components of a nucleotide?

• sugar, hydrogen, nitrogen base
• sugar, oxygen, nitrogen base
• sugar, phosphate, nitrogen base
• sugar, phosphate, protein

What is the correct order to make a protein?

• Protein, DNA, RNA

• RNA, DNA, Protein

• DNA, RNA, Protein

• Protein, RNA, DNA

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Where is DNA and RNA made?

• nucleus

• cytoplasm

• mitochondria

• ER

Where are proteins made?

• muscles

• nucleus

• outside the nucleus in the cytoplasm

RNA contains which sugar?

• deoxyribose

• Ribose

• glucose

• fructose

RNA has what base that is instead of thymine?

• guanine

• adenine

• thymine

• uracil

How would the DNA sequence GCTATA be transcribed to mRNA?

• GCUAUA
• CGATAT
• CGAUAU
• GCUTUT

Transcribe the following DNA sequence into RNA: (Hint! Remember that RNA has U instead of T!)

AAT TAG GGC TCG

• AAT TAG GGC TCG

• TTA ATC CCG AGC

• UUA AUC CCG AGC

• TTU UTC CCG UGC

What is Transcription?

• The making DNA segment.from mRNA.

• The making of an RNA strand into a protein.

• The making of an mRNA strand from the DNA template.

Amino acids are the building blocks of... 

• DNA
• RNA
• Atoms
• Proteins

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