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MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE - Quiz 11

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

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Class
Date
1.

Synthesis of DNA is

a)

spontaneous

b)

endergonic

c)

exergonic

d)

pseudogonic

2.

The enzyme that restores the phosphodiester linkage between adjacent fragments in the lagging strand during DNA replication is

a)

DNA ligase

b)

primase

c)

reverse transcriptase

d)

helicase

3.

A deoxyribose nucleoside is a

a)

deoxyribose plus a nitrogenous base

b)

sugar and a phosphate

c)

deoxyribose plus a nitrogenous base and a phosphate

d)

ribose plus a nitrogenous base

4.

The building blocks for a new DNA molecule are

a)

deoxyribose nucleoside monophosphates

b)

deoxyribose nucleoside diphosphates

c)

deoxyribose nucleoside triphosphates

d)

deoxyribose nucleoside tetraphosphates

5.

The force that holds DNA together in a double helix is

a)

The force of the twist

b)

covalent bonds

c)

ionic bonds or ionic interactions

d)

hydrogen bonds

6.

The difference between DNA and RNA is that

a)

DNA has thymine and RNA has uracil

b)

DNA has no oxygen bonded to the 2’ carbon; RNA does

c)

DNA is the genetic material; RNA is not.

d)

DNA is double stranded and RNA can’t have hydrogen bond

7.

Which one of the following is not found in DNA?

a)

Carbon

b)

Oxygen

c)

Nitrogen or Hydrogen

d)

Sulfur

8.

Boiling DNA causes it to become

a)

single stranded

b)

monomers

c)

destroyed

d)

smaller the longer it is boiled

9.

The Hershey-Chase experiment

a)

Proved semiconservative replication is the mode for DNA replication

b)

used 32P to label protein

c)

used 35S to label DNA

d)

helped to prove DNA was the genetic molecule

10.

Chargaff’s rules of base pairing state that

a)

the ratio of purines to pyrimidines is roughly equal in all tested organisms

b)

the ratio of A to T is roughly equal in all tested organisms

c)

the ratio of A + T and G + C is roughly equal in all tested organisms

d)

a and b