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Genetics Revision

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In messenger RNA, adenine base pairs with:

a)

Thymine

b)

Uracil

c)

Cytosine

d)

Guanine

2.

The enzyme tasked with unwinding DNA during DNA synthesis is:

a)

DNA ligase

b)

DNA polymerase

c)

DNA helicase

d)

DNA phosphate

3.

Which of the following is NOT true of codons?

a)

They are instructions contained within a strand of mRNA

b)

They are a triplet code used to make polypeptides

c)

They code for more than one amino acid

d)

There are start and stop codons

4.

What is translation?

a)

It involves DNA being used to create mRNA

b)

It involves making another copy of the DNA strand

c)

It is the process of replacing thymine with uracil

d)

It is the production of polypeptides from mRNA

5.

Which of the following is NOT true of mutations?

a)

If they occur in germline cells they can't be passed to offspring

b)

They are changes in the genetic material of an organism

c)

They can involve duplication or deletion of a section of DNA

d)

They can have negative, positive or neutral effects on an organism

6.

A missense mutation is one in which:

a)

There is a base substitution that results in an amino acid replacement at that location

b)

There is a base substitution that results in a Stop codon and shortens the peptide

c)

There is a base substitution that does not result in a new amino acid

d)

There is a frameshift and all amino acids after that point differ

7.

On the gel electrophoresis output, which labelled band travelled the furthest through the gel?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

8.

Below is a sequence of template DNA. What would the mRNA strand look like if the DNA sequence was transcribed?


3'- ATGCCGTAGCGGG -5'

a)

5'- TACGGCATCGCCC -3'

b)

5'- UACGGCAUCGCCC -3'

c)

3'- ATGCCGTAGCGGG -5'

d)

3'- AUGCCGUAGCGGG -5'

9.

The 3 components of a nucleotide are:

a)

Protein, Sugar and Phosphate

b)

Sugar, Phosphate and Nitrogenous Base

c)

Phosphate, Nitrogenous Base and Protein

d)

Thymine, Sugar, Protein

10.

What is incomplete dominance?

a)

The heterozygote will have the same phenotype as the homozygous dominant

b)

The heterozygote has an intermediate of the two phenotypes observed in the homozygotes

c)

The heterozygote displays phenotypic expression of both allele types

d)

The recessive trait shows through half the time in the heterozygote