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AP Biology

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who started the discovery of the genetic information of DNA in 1928?

a)

T. H Morgan

b)

Frederick griffith

c)

Avery

d)

Hershey and Chase

2.

What is the process that explains the change of genotype and phenotype du to the assimilation of foreign DNA?

(a)  

3.

What did Hershey and Chase used to confirm that there is a DNA that is responsible for the genetic information?

a)

Bacteria

b)

virus

c)

Bacteriophages

d)

animals

4.

Who discovered that DNA has a base-pairing rule?

a)

T.H. Morgan

b)

Avery

c)

F. Griffith

d)

E. Chargraff

5.

Who discovered the DNA structure as the double helix strand?

(a)  

6.

what do yo call when the subunits of the DNA runs in the opposite directions?

a)

antiparallel

b)

disposition

c)

semiconservative model

d)

all of the above

7.

Where does replication begins in the DNA replication stage?

a)

replication fork

b)

origin of replications

c)

DNA template

d)

topoisomerase

8.

What enzyme is responsible in untwisting the double helix at the replication fork?

a)

Topoisomerase

b)

Helicase

c)

DNA polymerase

d)

primase

9.

What enzyme relieves the strain the tight twisting in the DNA strands?

a)

topoisomerase

b)

pimase

c)

helicase

d)

ligase

10.

What is the strand that moves goin toward the replication fork?

a)

Okazaki fragments

b)

leading strand

c)

lagging strand

d)

all of the above

11.

What is the segments/fragments that synthesize the lagging stand?

a)

okazaki fragments

b)

lagging strand

c)

leading strand

12.

What enzyme proofread the newly made DNA, replacing the old and has error base-pairs?

a)

DNA polymerase

b)

RNA polymerase

c)

DNA ligase

d)

RNA ligase

13.

What structure ensures the protection at the ends of the chromosomes?

(a)  

14.

In bacteria, in what region is the supercoiled DNA can be found?

a)

nucleoid

b)

chromatin

c)

histones

d)

nuclear pore

15.

What is the protein that is responsible in packing or wrapping the DNA into chromatin?

a)

ligase

b)

amino acid

c)

nucleusome

d)

histones

16.

What is the technique used in manipulating directly the genes for practical purposes?

(a)  

17.

What do you call the resulting plasmid if one plasmid of the bacteria is inserted into a foreign DNA source?

a)

recombinant DNA

b)

bacterial transformation

c)

replication

d)

hybridization

18.

What tool is used to produce many copies in a specific target segment of DNA?

a)

Gene editing

b)

DNA sequencing

c)

PCR

d)

Taq polymerase

19.

What is the process when DNA template is being duplicated to create an identical copy?

a)

tanscription

b)

translation

c)

replication

d)

DNA sequencing

20.

It is a technique where complementary base pairing can be exploited to determine the gene's complete nucleotide sequence.

a)

DNA sequencing

b)

Clining

c)

Hybridization

d)

DNA editing