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DNA Structure

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What letter represents a purine?

a)

W

b)

X

c)

Y

d)

Z

2.

Which color base represents thymine?

a)

dark green

b)

light green

c)

orange

d)

yellow

3.

What carbon can form a bond with another nucleotide?

a)

2'

b)

3'

c)

4,

d)

5'

4.

How many hydrogen bonds form between cytosine and guanine?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

5.

What type of bond does letter Y represent?

a)

glycosidic bond

b)

hydrogen bond

c)

peptide bond

d)

phospodiester bond

6.

What carbon forms a phosphodiester bond with a phosphate group?

a)

1'

b)

3'

c)

5'

d)

6'

7.

What base is the orange nucleotide?

a)

adenine

b)

cytosine

c)

guanine

d)

thymine

8.

Which two bases are pyrimidines?

a)

adenine and thymine

b)

adenine and guanine

c)

cytosine and guanine

d)

cytosine and thymine

9.

The work of which scientist(s) determined that DNA is the hereditary material instead of proteins?

a)

Chargaff

b)

Griffith

c)

Hershey and Chase

d)

Franklin

10.

Which is NOT a component of a DNA nucleotide?

a)

phosphate group

b)

deoxyribose

c)

nitrogenous base

d)

amino acid

11.

The work of which scientist(s) determined base pairing rules?

a)

Chargaff

b)

Griffith

c)

Hershey and Chase

d)

Avery

12.

Which of these statements is false regarding photo 51?

a)

It confirmed that DNA was a helical shape.

b)

It confirmed the parts of a nucleotide.

c)

It confirmed the base-pairing rules.

d)

It confirmed that DNA is antiparallel.

13.

If a sample of DNA from a wheat plant has 23% cytosine, how much adenine should it also contain?

a)

23%

b)

27%

c)

54%

d)

77%

14.

What carbon attaches to the nitrogenous base in a nucleotide?

a)

1'

b)

2'

c)

3'

d)

5'

15.

How many hydrogen bonds will form between a base pair involving thymine?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

16.

A strand of DNA has the sequence 3'GGCATAGC5'. What is the sequence of nucleotides on the other DNA strand when read in the same direction as the first strand?

a)

3'CCGTATCG5'

b)

5'CCGTATCG3'

c)

3'AATGCGAT5'

d)

5'AATGCGAT3'

17.

Which phrase describes the base pairings that occur in DNA?

a)

purine + purine

b)

pyrimidine + pyrimidine

c)

purine + pyrimidine

18.

Which carbon is involved in dehydration synthesis reactions for building a DNA polymer?

a)

1'

b)

3'

c)

4'

d)

5'