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DNA Structure & Replication

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the three major components of a nucleotide?

a)

phosphate, sugar, nitrogenous base

b)

sugar, nitrogenous base, nucleic acid

c)

phosphate, hydrogen, nitrogenous base

d)

sugar, hydrogen, nucleic acid

2.

Adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine are

a)

phosphate groups

b)

nucleic acids

c)

nitrogenous bases

d)

deoxyribose sugars

3.

Which bases are purines?

a)

adenine & thymine

b)

adenine & guanine

c)

cytosine & guanine

d)

cytosine & thymine

4.

The picture shows nitrogenous bases that are ...

a)

purines

b)

pyrimidines

5.

The picture shows nitrogenous bases that are ...

a)

purines

b)

pyrimidines

6.

In a eukaryotic cell, in which organelle does DNA replication take place?

a)

cytoplasm

b)

nucleus

c)

ribosome

d)

nucleolus

7.

Who took the famous x-ray diffraction picture of DNA?

a)

Franklin

b)

Chargaff

c)

Watson & Crick

d)

Wilkins

8.

Who developed the double-helix model of DNA?

a)

Franklin

b)

Chargaff

c)

Watson & Crick

d)

Wilkins

9.

Who developed the base-pairing rule?

a)

Franklin

b)

Chargaff

c)

Watson & Crick

d)

Wilkins

10.

Which is the complementary strand for A-T-C-G

a)

T-A-G-C

b)

A-T-C-G

c)

G-T-C-A

d)

G-A-C-T

11.

Of the following, the first step in DNA replication would be

a)

DNA helicase "unzips" the molecule

b)

complementary nucleotides "match up" with nucleotides on the existing strand

c)

form new hydrogen bonds between nucleotides