WorksheetsChapter 13 DNA Structure Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of the following researchers used radioactive markers in experiments to show that DNA isthe genetic material in cells?
Griffith
Avery
Hershey & Chase
Watson & Crick
Which of the following researchers wanted to find out what genetic material was made from (nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids or proteins) and determined DNA stores genetic material in organisms?
Griffith
Avery
Hershey & Chase
Watson & Crick
Which of the following researchers determined DNA is made from two strands, joined by paired nitrogenous bases and twisted in a double helix?
Griffith
Avery
Hershey & Chase
Watson & Crick
Which of the following researchers determined that traits are passed from parent to offspring by studying pea plants?
Mendel
Chargaff
Franklin
Watson & Crick
Which of the following researchers determined that the amount of thymine in DNA = the amount of adenine, and the amount of cyotsine in DNA = the amount of guanine in DNA?
Mendel
Chargaff
Franklin
Watson & Crick
Which of the following researchers used x-ray crystallography to determine that DNA is in a helical pattern?
Mendel
Chargaff
Franklin
Watson & Crick
A nucleotide does not contain...
a sugar
an amino acid
a nitogenous base
a phosphate group
According to Chargaff's rule of base pairing, which of the following is true about DNA?
A = T
C = G
A = C
T = G
A = G
T = C
A = T = C = G
The bonds that hold the two strands of DNA together come from
The attraction of phosphate groups for each other
Strong bonds between nitrogenous bases and deoxyribose
Weak hydrogen bonds between the nitrogenous bases
Carbon-to-carbon bonds in the suar portion of the nucleotides
The term that describes one side of nucleotides facing up and the other side of nucleotides facing downward is called...
antiparallel arrangement
parallel
arrangement
intersecting
transversal
In eukaryotes DNA is found in this organelle...
golgi apparatus
nucleus
mitochondria
chloroplast
Adenine pairs with....
Thymine
Guanine
Cytosine
Guanine pairs with....
Thymine
Adenine
Cytosine
Purines are.....
Adenine & Guanine
Cytosine & Thymine
Adenine & Thymine
Guanine & Cytosine
Pyrimidines are.....
Adenine & Guanine
Cytosine & Thymine
Adenine & Thymine
Guanine & Cytosine
If there's 28% adenine, how much thymine is there?
28%
22%
12%
21%
If there's 13% adenine, how much guanine is there?
37%
17%
27%
13%
Y & Z represent what part of the structure of DNA?
sugar phosphate backbone
base pairs
hydrogen bonds
W & X represent what part of the structure of DNA?
sugar phosphate backbone
base pairs
hydrogen bonds
The little dotted lines inbetween W & X represent what part of the structure of DNA?
sugar phosphate backbone
base pairs
hydrogen bonds
