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Genetics

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This process occurs in the nucleus, requires DNA Helicase & Polymerase.

a)

DNA Replication

b)

Transcription

c)

Translation

d)

RNA Replication

2.

This occurs in the nucleus and requires RNA Polymerase.

a)

DNA Replication

b)

Transcription

c)

Translation

d)

RNA Replication

3.

This occurs in the cytoplasm, requires the rRNA subunits, tRNA & various amino acids.

a)

DNA Replication

b)

Transcription

c)

Translation

d)

RNA Replication

4.

Which of the following is not a step of translation?

a)

Initiation

b)

Elongation

c)

Polymerization

d)

Termination

5.

Who discovered that DNA is the genetic material?

a)

Avery, MacLeod, McCarty

b)

Watson & Crick

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Rosalind Franklin

6.

Who is credited with discovering the structure of DNA?

a)

Avery, MacLeod, McCarty

b)

Watson & Crick

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Rosalind Franklin

7.

Who uncovered that DNA is a double helix with her work on x-ray crystallography?

a)

Avery, MacLeod, McCarty

b)

Watson & Crick

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Rosalind Franklin

8.

Which enzyme unwinds and "unzips" the DNA molecule by breaking hydrogen bonds?

a)

Restriction Enzyme

b)

DNA Ligase

c)

DNA Helicase

d)

DNA Polymerase

9.

This controls if an operon is active or not.

a)

Operator

b)

Promoter

c)

Structural Genes

d)

Repressor

10.

Which of the following are cut out of the RNA molecule & not used?

a)

Introns

b)

Exons

11.

These mutations occur at random.

a)

Induced

b)

Frameshift

c)

Point

d)

Spontaneous

12.

This mutation results in a single DNA nucleotide & potentially a single amino acid changing.

a)

Induced

b)

Frameshift

c)

Point

d)

Spontaneous

13.

This mutation results in one or more nucleotides inserting or deleting from a DNA sequence.

a)

Induced

b)

Frameshift

c)

Point

d)

Spontaneous

14.

UV Radiation can cause 2 of these nucleotides to bond together which can eventually lead to this.

a)

Adenines, Skin Cancer

b)

Skin Cancer, Thymines

c)

Thymines, Skin Roughness

d)

Thymines, Skin Cancer

15.

Mutagens that cause cancer are called what?

a)

Cancer-causing Agents

b)

Carcinogens

c)

H.U.L.K. Mutagens

d)

Carotids

16.

Cloning is the production of identical copies of DNA, cells, or organisms asexually.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

When cloned genes are used to modify humans it is called what?

a)

Cloning

b)

Transgenic Organisms

c)

Gene Therapy

d)

Genetically Modified Organisms

18.

When cloned genes are used to modify other organisms it is called what?

a)

Cloning

b)

Transgenic Organisms

c)

Gene Therapy

d)

Genetically Modified Organisms

19.

These 2 things are required to insert foreign DNA into other organisms.

a)

DNA Helicase

b)

DNA Polymerase

c)

Restriction Enzyme

d)

DNA Ligase

20.

In RNA, A bonds with T, and C bonds with G.

a)

True

b)

False