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DNA, RNA, and Mutation

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Scientists: Watson & _______

a)

Homles

b)

Crick

c)

Rogers

d)

Chargaff

2.

Scientist: Rosalind _________

a)

Franklin

b)

Wollongong

c)

Mieshner

d)

Watson

3.

Scientist: Erwin ________

a)

Franklin

b)

Crick

c)

Chargaff

d)

Smith

4.

Scientist: Friedrich __________

a)

Franklin

b)

Watson

c)

Mieschner

d)

Wollongng

5.

Random Trivia:

Which country is Wollongong located in

a)

Australia

b)

Europe

c)

United States

d)

China

6.

What did Watson and Crick discover?

a)

Shape of DNA

b)

Bases

c)

RNA

d)

Their long lost cheeto under the couch

7.

What did Rosalind Franklin discover?

a)

Discovered mRNA

b)

Wollongong

c)

Used x-ray to find shape of RNA

d)

Used x-ray to find shape of DNA

8.

What did Erwin Chargaff discover?

a)

Shape of DNA

b)

DNA bases

c)

The vatican

d)

RNA

9.

What did Friedrich Miescher discover

a)

That DNA is in the cytoplasm

b)

That RNA is in the Nucleus

c)

That DNA is in the nucleus

d)

That mRNA is in the ribosome

10.

Random trivia:

Which state is Wollongong located in?

a)

Wyoming

b)

Texas

c)

Victoria

d)

New South Wales

11.

What are the 4 DNA bases

a)

Adenine, Cytosine, Uracil, Guanine

b)

Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine

c)

Cytosine, Guanine, Uracil, Thymine

d)

Guanine, Adenine, Thenine, cytosine

12.

What was Chargaff's rule?

a)

Transcription comes before translation

b)

DNA is a double helix, RNA is a single strand

c)

A = U G = C

d)

A = T, C = G

13.

What is the Job of Helicase in DNA replication?

a)

to "unzip" the DNA

b)

to make two exact copies of the DNA

c)

To form codons

d)

To copy the base pairs

14.

What is the job of the DNA polymerase?

a)

To bring the DNA back together

b)

to lead the way for mRNA to latch onto the "unziped" DNA

c)

To add the new codons needed for translation

d)

To bind to the "unziped" DNA strands to replicate it by attaching new base pairs

15.

Random Trivia:

Which Mountain is located north of Wollongong?

a)

Mt. Everest

b)

Mt. Stevens

c)

Mt. Keira

d)

Mt. Kitawa

16.

RNA stands for:

a)

Ribosomal acid

b)

Ribonucleic acid

c)

Ribonitrope acid

d)

Really Nice Apple

17.

Transcription:

a)

DNA to mRNA

b)

RNA to DNA

c)

RNA to mRNA

d)

RNA to protiens

18.

Translation:

a)

RNA to DNA

b)

RNA to mRNA

c)

mRNA to tRNA

d)

RNA to proteins

19.

Which of the following is not a difference between RNA and DNA?

a)

RNA has one strand, DNA has two

b)

RNA has Uracil, DNA has Thymine

c)

DNA has bases, RNA does not

d)

RNA has ribose, DNA has deoxyribose

20.

Random Trivia:

Which national park is located next to Wollongong?

a)

Royal National Park

b)

South Beach Nation Park

c)

New South Wales Recreation Center

d)

Grand Canyon

21.

What is the job of the mRNA?

a)

To split up the DNA

b)

To take the DNA out of the nucleus

c)

To take the RNA to the endoplasmic reticulum

d)

To take the split DNA to a ribosome

22.

Where is the rRNa located?

a)

DNA

b)

Ribosome

c)

Endoplasmic reticulum

d)

Nucleus

23.

What is the Job of tRNA?

a)

Releases a chemical to create proteins

b)

Takes the strand out of the ribosome

c)

Attaches an amino acid to the strand to make a protein.

d)

transports pre-made proteins to the strand

24.

What are the building blocks of proteins

a)

acid

b)

DNA

c)

Glucose

d)

Amino acids

25.

Random Trivia:

What are the buses called in Wollongong?

a)

The Gong Shuttle

b)

Wollongong Public Transport

c)

Wollongong bus co.

d)

NSW Transportation

26.

What are Codons?

a)

Special nucleotides that create proteins

b)

A sequence of 3 nucleotides that correspond with an Amino acid

c)

Special amino acids that create new DNA

d)

RNA nucleotides that code for mRNA

27.

Using the codon wheel, find which amino acid corresponds with the codon CAG

a)

Therosine

b)

Alanine

c)

Leucine

d)

Glutamine

28.

What is the "central dogma of biology"?

a)

Nucleus » Cell » Organism

b)

Birth » Life » Death

c)

DNA » RNA » Protein

d)

Circle of life

29.

Random trivia;

Wollongong is the:

a)

15th largest city

b)

10th largest city

c)

2nd largest city

d)

worst city

30.

What is a Mutation?

a)

When an organism dies

b)

When a cell dies

c)

Weird differences caused by injury

d)

A permanent alteration to a sequence of DNA (Gene)

31.

What is a point shift mutation?

a)

When only one base pair is altered

b)

When the job of a base is altered

c)

when a base grows in size

d)

When a gene sequence shrinks

32.

What is a frameshift mutation

a)

When a sequence of nucleotides dies

b)

When a base is skewed

c)

When a sequence of nucleotides is altered

d)

When Tj gets detention

33.

When a nucleotide is taken away:

a)

exemption

b)

deletion

c)

death

d)

yeeted

34.

When a nucleotide is added:

a)

insertion

b)

addition

c)

multiplication

d)

y=mx+b

35.

What is a mutagen?

a)

Something that influences a mutation in a cat

b)

A very bad mutation

c)

Someone who is a mutant

d)

An agent that influences or causes a mutation

36.

Last question!

What does Wollongong mean?

a)

By the rocks

b)

near the mountain

c)

By the ocean

d)

forehead bruh moment