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Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

DNA is...

a)

Deoxyribonucleic acid

b)

Ribonucleic acid

c)

Long double-stranded molecule

d)

Double helix

2.

DNA's nitrogenous bases are everything except...

a)

Thymine

b)

Cytosine

c)

Uracil

d)

Guanine

3.

What pairs with Thymine?

a)

Adenine

b)

Cytosine

c)

Guanine

d)

Uracil

4.

What pairs with Adenine? (DNA)

a)

Thymine

b)

Guanine

c)

Cytosine

d)

Uracil

5.

What pairs with Adenine? (RNA)

a)

Thymine

b)

Guanine

c)

Cytosine

d)

Uracil

6.

What pairs with Guanine?

a)

Uracil

b)

Cytosine

c)

Thymine

d)

Adenine

7.

What pairs with Cytosine?

a)

Thymine

b)

Uracil

c)

Guanine

d)

Adenine

8.

When does DNA Replication occur?

a)

S phase

b)

G1

c)

G2

d)

Mitosis

9.

Nitrogenous base pairs (nucleotides) are held together by...

a)

Hydrogen Bonds

b)

Covalent Bonds

10.

What unzips the DNA by breaking the hydrogen bonds between the nitrogenous base pairs?

a)

DNA Polymerase

b)

Helicase

c)

RNA Polymerase

d)

Ligase

11.

What attaches new nucleotides to the unzipped DNA?

a)

DNA Polymerase

b)

RNA Polymerase

c)

Helicase

d)

Ligase

12.

What joins small fragments into a continuous chain?

a)

DNA Polymerase

b)

RNA Polymerase

c)

Ligase

d)

Helicase

13.

What are the three types of RNA?

a)

mRNA

b)

tRNA

c)

rRNA

d)

cRNA

14.

Transcription happens in the nucleus

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Translation happens in the cytoplasm

a)

True

b)

False

16.

What is the central dogma?

a)

DNA--> RNA--> Protein

b)

Protein--> RNA--> DNA

c)

DNA--> Protein--> RNA

d)

RNA--> DNA--> Protein

17.

How many letters at a time does mRNA read?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

18.

Transcribe AAGTCA to mRNA

a)

TTCAGU

b)

UUCAGU

c)

AAGTCA

19.

What are amino acids made out of?

a)

Codons

b)

Anti-codons

20.

What does tRNA bring to mRNA

a)

Codons

b)

Anti-codons

21.

A ribosome building a proteinbased on the information in mRNA is called...

a)

Translation

b)

Transcription

c)

DNA Replication

22.

Copying part of DNA into a strand of mRNA is called...

a)

Translation

b)

Transcription

c)

DNA Replication