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National DNA Day Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

who is the father of Genetics?

a)

Socrates

b)

G. J. Mendel

c)

punnet

d)

Hippocrates

2.

who is the father of Biology?

a)

Louis pasteur

b)

Robert Brown

c)

Aristotle

d)

Hippocrates

3.

what is human body's largest organ?

a)

heart

b)

brain

c)

tibia

d)

skin

4.

the microbiologist who discovered pasteurization is ?

a)

German

b)

Italian

c)

French

d)

American

5.

A DNA molecule is described being what shape?

a)

circular

b)

Double stranded

c)

Double helix

d)

Complex

6.

DNA ligase seals Gaps between Okazaki fragments

a)

True

b)

False

7.

plants receive their nutrients mainly from ?

a)

chlorophyll

b)

air

c)

light

d)

soil

8.

Gregor Mendel was

a)

an English scientist who carried out research with Charles Darwin

b)

a little known Central European monk

c)

an early 20th century Dutch biologist who carried out genetics research

d)

A French botanist

9.

Phenotype refers to the ______________________ of an individual.

a)

genetic makeup

b)

actual physical appearance

c)

result of Heterozygous condition

d)

recessive alleles

10.

for any particular trait, the pair of alleles of each parent separate n only one allele from a parent passes to the offspring

a)

independent assortment

b)

segregation

c)

hybridization

d)

Inheritance

11.

In cells, long pieces of DNA are organized into individual units called

a)

nucleotides

b)

chromosomes

c)

Amino acids

d)

histones

12.

DNA is made up of repeating subunits called

a)

nucleotides

b)

RNA

c)

Amino acids

d)

Bases

13.

In USA, It is currently legal to patent genes

a)

true

b)

false

14.

The DNA in the skin cells of your hand is significantly different in sequence from the DNA in your liver cells.

a)

true

b)

false

15.

Genes make up only about 3% of your DNA

a)

true

b)

false