WorksheetsLGC: Geneticists
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
______________ is known as the "Father of Genetics".
a)
Recessive
b)
Chromosomes
c)
DNA
d)
Gregor Mendel
2.
_______________ is the study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
a)
Monohybrid
b)
Genetics
c)
Chromosome
d)
Genotype
3.
Rosalind Franklin's "Photo 51" allowed Watson and Crick to determine the ___ of DNA.
a)
Shape
b)
Backbone
c)
Nitrogen bases
d)
Hydrogen bonds
4.
Which is the best definition of DNA?
a)
a spiral ladder
b)
something in your cells
c)
the recipe for making an organism
5.
Who was responsible for the model shown?
a)
Oswald Avery, et. al.
b)
Watson and Crick
c)
Erwin Chargaff
d)
Linus Pauling
6.
Who was responsible for the experiment depicted by the image?
a)
Friedrich (Fritz) Miescher
b)
Watson and Crick
c)
Frederick Griffith
d)
Rosalind Franklin
7.
Identify the correct chart that matches the contribution to the scientist
a)
Mendel - studied peas plants to determine how traits are passed on.
Franklin - saw X-ray photograph of DNA
Watson & Crick - made a 3D model of DNA
Franklin - saw X-ray photograph of DNA
Watson & Crick - made a 3D model of DNA
b)
Mendel - make 3D model of DNA
Franklin - studied peas plants to determine how traits are passed on
Watson & Crick - saw X-ray photograph of DNA
Franklin - studied peas plants to determine how traits are passed on
Watson & Crick - saw X-ray photograph of DNA
c)
Mendel - saw X-ray photograph of DNA
Franklin - Made a 3D model of DNA
Watson & Crick - studied pea plants to determine how traits are passed on.
Franklin - Made a 3D model of DNA
Watson & Crick - studied pea plants to determine how traits are passed on.
d)
Mendel - made a 3D model of DNA
Franklin - Saw X-ray photograph of DNA
Watson and Crick - studied pea plants to determine how traits are passed on.
Franklin - Saw X-ray photograph of DNA
Watson and Crick - studied pea plants to determine how traits are passed on.
8.
What did Gregor Mendel use to discover the principles that rule heredity?
a)
Pea Plant
b)
Pigeons
c)
Pear trees
d)
Photosynthesis
9.
What did Mendel call the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?
a)
Genesis
b)
Elective traits
c)
Alleles
d)
Quadrants
10.
What is the name of this image
a)
Image 51
b)
Series 51
c)
Franklin's Photograph
d)
Photograph 51
11.
How did Rosalind take pictures of the shape of DNA
a)
X-Ray diffraction
b)
X-Ray microscopy
c)
Scanning Electron Microscope
d)
Radioation diffraction
12.
Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA
a)
Rosalind Franklin
b)
Linus Pauling
c)
James Watson
d)
Gregor Mendel
13.
Who worked in the same lab as Rosalind Franklin
a)
Francis Crick
b)
James Watson
c)
She only worked solo
d)
Maurice Wilkins
14.
What does this image show?
a)
Double Helical Structure of DNA
b)
Triple Helical Structure of DNA
c)
I don't know, is that a Rorschach test?
d)
The image is inconclusive
15.
Who is responsible for producing this image?
a)
Francis Crick
b)
James Watson
c)
Rosalind Franklin
d)
Watson and Crick
16.
The diagram shows a picture of a DNA molecule. The DNA molecule could be describes as ...
a)
being flat like a sheet of paper
b)
a single strand with two nitrogenous bases
c)
rod-shaped
d)
having a double helix shape
17.
What are the main components of DNA?
a)
Nitrogenous bases
Phosphates
Oxides
Phosphates
Oxides
b)
Carbon bases
Phosphates
Sugars
Phosphates
Sugars
c)
Nitrogenous bases
Phosphates
Sugars
Phosphates
Sugars
d)
Carbon bases
Phosphates
Sugars
Phosphates
Sugars
18.
Which figure correctly represents the structure of DNA?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
19.
Who made the model of the double helix?
a)
Franklin and Wilkins
b)
Watson and Crick
c)
Chargaff
d)
Hershey and Chase
20.
What will the matching sequence be on a strand that reads AAGCTAT?
a)
AACGATA
b)
TTCGTTA
c)
CCTGATA
d)
TTCGATA
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