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DNA Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is DNA Replication?

a)

DNA deleting parts of itself

b)

DNA making a copy of itself

c)

DNA forming into a different shape

d)

None of the answers are correct

2.

What is DNA?

a)

It is the "blue print" for life

b)

It is the "building block" of life

c)

Carries out certain functions that help us live

d)

It is made of nucleotides A, U, C, G

3.

Which of these is NOT a scientist that helped discover DNA?

a)

Francis Crick

b)

Marie Franklin

c)

James Watson

d)

Rosalind Franklin

4.

What are genes?

a)

Coiled up DNA

b)

They hold DNA

c)

Segments of DNA

d)

Building blocks of life

5.

Which of the following is NOT a nucleotide?

a)

Adenine

b)

Cytocine

c)

Guanine

d)

Thyroxine

6.

Make the other DNA strand that matches this one:

TTACGT

a)

TTACGT

b)

AAGCA

c)

AATGCA

d)

TTTGCT

7.

Which of these is NOT a true statement?

a)

DNA is made of nucleotides

b)

DNA can be found in the nucleus of bacterial cells

c)

All living things have DNA

d)

DNA is also called Deoxyribonucleic Acid

8.

What is the scientific name for DNA?

a)

Ribonucleic Acid

b)

Deoxygenated Accumulation

c)

Deoxyribonucleic Acid

d)

Dristoxynucis Acid

9.

True or false: Proteins help form life

a)

True

b)

False

10.

What is CRISPR?

a)

It allows scientists to modify/change human DNA

b)

A tool that lets scientists view cells on a microscopic level

c)

A cooking tool that allows cooks to crisp up food

d)

A tool that allows scientists to twist up DNA into new formations

11.

Why are strawberries so easy to pull DNA from?

a)

They are smaller than other organisms

b)

They are bigger and have lots of juice

c)

They have 8x more DNA than humans

d)

They have less DNA than humans

12.

If an organism has more chromosomes then it is....

a)

More intelligent

b)

Bigger

c)

More complex

d)

None of the answers are correct

13.

In Eukaryotes DNA can be found in....

a)

Free floating in the cytoplasm

b)

The Nucleus

c)

The upper region of the cell

d)

The lower region of the cell

14.

What does DNA helicase do?

a)

Untwists DNA out of the double helix shape

b)

Unzips the DNA so that the two strands are separated

c)

Starts to complete a complementary DNA strand creating two brand new strands of DNA

d)

All of these are correct

15.

What does DNA polymerase do?

a)

Starts to complete a complementary DNA strand creating two brand new strands of DNA

b)

Unwinds the DNA out of a double helix shape

c)

Unzips the DNA so that the two strands are separated

d)

All of these are correct

16.

What is a chromosome?

a)

DNA that has been untwisted

b)

Coiled up or condensed RNA

c)

RNA that has been untwisted

d)

Coiled up or condensed DNA

17.

What is the shape of DNA?

a)

Double helicase

b)

Double polymerase

c)

Double helix

d)

Double amino

18.

True or False: All living things have DNA

a)

True

b)

False

19.

True or False: The order of nucleotides (ATCG) is what creates specific genes

a)

True

b)

False

20.

True or False: nucleotides can be paired up randomly

a)

True

b)

False