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WINK: Protein Synthesis

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the building blocks of proteins?

a)

amino acid

b)

fatty acid

c)

glucose

d)

nucleotides

2.

What is the molecule that serves as the “blueprint” of life?

a)

deoxyribonucleic acid

b)

messenger RNA

c)

ribonucleic acid

d)

transfer RNA

3.

What are the nitrogenous bases in DNA?

a)

adenine, cytosine, uracil only

b)

adenine, cytosine, thymine only

c)

adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine

d)

adenine, cytosine, guanine, uracil

4.

Which is the correct complement pairing of bases in DNA?

a)

adenine-guanine, cytosine-guanine

b)

adenine-cytosine, guanine-thymine

c)

adenine-thymine, cytosine-guanine

d)

uracil-guanine, cytosine-guanine

5.

Which of the following sequences of DNA bases is complementary to the

sequence: ATC-GTG-CCC

a)

TAG-CAC-GGG

b)

TAG-TAT-GGG

c)

AUG-CAC-GGG

d)

AUG-TAT-GGG

6.

What are the nitrogenous bases in RNA?

a)

adenine, cytosine, uracil only

b)

adenine, cytosine, thymine only

c)

adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine

d)

adenine, cytosine, guanine, uracil

7.

What is the correct description for a DNA molecule?

a)

covalent

b)

double helix

c)

octahedral

d)

triple triangle

8.

The DNA of a cell is found inside the ________________.

a)

Golgi body

b)

Nucleus

c)

Nuclear envelope

d)

Ribosomes

9.

What are the types of RNA?

a)

messenger RNA and ribosomal RNA

b)

messenger RNA and transfer RNA

c)

messenger RNA, ribosomal RNA, and transfer RNA

d)

ribosomal RNA and transfer RNA

10.

According to the rule on complementary pairing of nucleotide bases, adenine (A)

will only make a bond with ____________ in DNA.

a)

cytosine

b)

guanine

c)

thymine

d)

uracil

11.

Most genes DNA hold instructions for the cell to make a specific _____.

a)

carbohydrate

b)

chromosome

c)

lipid

d)

protein

12.

The codes for the production of proteins need to leave the nucleus of the cell.

This can be accomplished by using _______to take messages out of the nucleus.

a)

DNA

b)

RNA

c)

amino acids

d)

lipids

13.

A ______________is a long molecule of tightly coiled DNA.

a)

cellulose

b)

centromere

c)

chromosome

d)

cytoplasm

14.

Which of the following is NOT a stop codon?

a)

UAA

b)

UAG

c)

UGA

d)

GGA

15.

What do you call the basic physical and functional unit of heredity?

a)

centromere

b)

gene

c)

genome

d)

kinetochore