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DNA Structure and History

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who is responsible for producing this image?
a)
Francis Crick
b)
James Watson
c)
Rosalind Franklin
d)
Watson and Crick
2.
What does this image show?
a)
Double helical structure of DNA
b)
Triple Helical Structure of DNA
c)
Double helical structure of RNA
d)
Triple Helical Structure of RNA
3.
What was Watson and Crick's main scientific accomplishment?
a)
Building the first accurate model of DNA
b)
Isolating strains of pneumonia causing bacteria
c)
Determining base pairing rules
d)
Discovering the process of genetic transformation
4.
Who was responsible for the model shown?
a)
Oswald Avery
b)
Watson and Crick
c)
Erwin Chargaff
d)
Rosalind Franklin
5.

DNA stands for

a)

Deoxyribonucleic Acid

b)

Ribonucleic acid

c)

Hydrofluoric acid

d)

Lysergic acid

6.

What is the shape of DNA?

a)

three oligonucleotides wind around each other and form a triple helix

b)

Two strands coiled called in a double helix

c)

a spiral on a conic surface, with the distance to the apex an exponential function of the angle indicating direction from the axis.

d)

a curve in three-dimensional space.

7.

Adenine always pairs with

a)

Uracil

b)

Guanine

c)

Cytosine

d)

Thymine

8.

The sides of the DNA ladder are

a)

hydrogen

b)

deoxyribose

c)

phosphate

d)

purine

9.

Guanine always pairs with

a)

Urical

b)

Cytosine

c)

Adenine

d)

Thymine

10.

What is the complementary sequence:

C A T T A G

a)

G T A C U G

b)

G T A A T C

c)

G T C C T A

d)

T G C C G T

11.

The two sides of DNA are held together by _______ bonds.

a)

Hydrogen

b)

Treasury

c)

Covalent

d)

Phosphate

12.

DNA is composed of repeating sub-units called

a)

phosphate group

b)

nucleotides

c)

nitrogenous base

d)

5-carbon sugar

13.

What are the 4 bases that make up the rungs of the DNA ladder?

a)

adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine

b)

xanthine, cafeine, cytarabine, gemcitabine,

c)

hypoxanthine, theobromine, fluorouracil, paclitaxel

d)

adenine, guanine, cytosine, urical

14.
Which sugar is contained in DNA
a)
Dextrose
b)
Ribose
c)
Deoxyribose
d)
Glucose
15.

DNA is the instructions for your traits, how are those instructions carried in DNA?

a)

The code created by the Nitrogen bases

b)

The code found in the arrangement of the Sugars

c)

The code created by the phosphate order

d)

The code found in the shape of the molecule