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Pop Science: DNA

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

DNA stands for...

a)

do not assist

b)

deoxyrhino acid

c)

deoxynucleus acid

d)

deoxyribonucleic acid

2.

DNA was first discovered in...

a)

1859

b)

1869

c)

1879

d)

1889

3.

DNA was discovered by...

a)

James Cook

b)

Friedrich Meischer

c)

Raymond Gosling

d)

Martha Chase

4.

Where is most DNA found?

a)

In major organs

b)

In the brain

c)

In the nucleus of a cell

d)

In the blood

5.

Which part of the cell creates energy?

a)

mitochondria

b)

cytoplasm

c)

nucleus

d)

ribosome

6.

The DNA 'code' contains four letters which are...

a)

A, B, G, T

b)

A, C, J, T

c)

A, B, C, D

d)

A, C, G, T

7.

DNA comes in the shape of a...

a)

single helix

b)

straight ladder

c)

double helix

d)

circular helix

8.

Human DNA is made up of nearly...

a)

1 billion base pairs

b)

2 billion base pairs

c)

3 billion base pairs

d)

4 billion base pairs

9.

What percentage of DNA is basically the same in every human?

a)

99 percent

b)

98 percent

c)

97 percent

d)

96 percent

10.

Doctors hope that DNA analysis will allow them to...

a)

live forever

b)

discover how all life started

c)

clone human beings

d)

treat genetic diseases

11.

Dolly, the first successfully cloned mammal, was a...

a)

sheep

b)

cow

c)

pig

d)

cat

12.

In which country was Dolly cloned?

a)

America

b)

England

c)

Ireland

d)

Scotland

13.

Many people were upset about the news of Dolly because...

a)

they don't like sheep

b)

they are afraid of human cloning

c)

they don't want to have some diseases cured

d)

they are afraid of eating cloned sheep meat

14.

The concept of bringing back the dinosaurs usually starts with a DNA filled...

a)

leech

b)

fly

c)

mosquito

d)

bee

15.

The oldest DNA to have been found so far is around...

a)

1 million years old

b)

2 million years old

c)

3 million years old

d)

4 million years old