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WorksheetsDNA & RNA POP QUIZ
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of sugar makes up RNA?
a)
deoxyribose
b)
glucose
c)
fructose
d)
ribose
2.
What base does RNA have that DNA does not?
a)
uracil
b)
thymine
c)
cytosine
d)
guanine
3.
What are proteins composed of?
a)
nitrogen bases
b)
amino acids
4.
Where does transcription take place?
a)
at a ribosome
b)
in the nucleus
c)
at a mitochondria
d)
at a lysosome
5.
If a DNA strand reads ATT CGT CTA, what would the mRNA strand read?
a)
TAA GCA GAT
b)
CGA TGA GUT
c)
UAA GCA GAU
d)
TAA GCA GUT
6.
Where does translation take place?
a)
in the nucleus
b)
at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
c)
at a mitochondria
d)
at a lysosome
7.
How many bases code for one amino acid?
a)
three
b)
four
c)
twenty-three
d)
eight
8.
Who is credited for discovering the shape of DNA?
a)
James Lebron and Francis Oneill
b)
James Watson and Francis Crick
c)
Henry Ford
d)
Rosalind Franklin
9.
What 3 things make up a nucleotide?
a)
Sugar, Phosphate, Nitrogen Base
b)
Sugar, Hydrogen, Carbon
c)
Carbon, Phosphate, Nitrogen
d)
mRNA, tRNA and rRNA
10.
How many base pairs would be needed to chain together 3 amino acids?
a)
3
b)
6
c)
9
d)
12
11.
What is made during translation?
a)
transfer RNA
b)
messenger RNA
c)
Proteins
d)
Spanish Rice
12.
What stores the code for making an individual protein?
a)
DNA
b)
a gene
c)
a chromosome
d)
transfer RNA
13.
What makes DNA different from RNA?
a)
they type of phosphate
b)
the type of sugar
c)
having C pair with G
d)
Having A's
14.
How is a mutation caused?
a)
changing the tRNA
b)
a mutagen
c)
cancer
15.
Which of the following is the process of reading mRNA code to produce a protein?
a)
replication
b)
translation
c)
transcription
16.
What type of RNA carries the DNA message out of the nucleus to the ribosomes?
a)
mRNA
b)
tRNA
c)
RNA
d)
DNA
17.
What do we call the process of turning DNA into mRNA?
a)
Translation
b)
Transcription
c)
Replication
18.
When DNA is transcribed to RNA....
a)
A pairs with U
b)
C pairs with U
c)
A pairs with T
d)
C pairs with T
19.
The job of tRNA is to...
a)
carry amino acids to the ribosomes
b)
carry ribosomes to the ER
c)
carry mRNA out of the nucleus
d)
carry glucose to mitochondria
20.
Which RNA bases would pair with TACGAA in transcription?
a)
AUGCUU
b)
ATGCTT
c)
GCATCC
d)
GCAUCC
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