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DNA Structure

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 8mins

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1.

Which of the following units are repeatedly joined together to form a strand of DNA?

a)

Amino Acids

b)

Nucleotides

c)

Fatty acids

d)

Polysaccharides

2.

What are the 4 nitrogen bases?

a)

adenine, thymine, cytoplasm, and guanine

b)

adenine, thymine cytosine, and guanine

c)

adenine, thymine, cytosine, and gylcerol

d)

adenine, thymine, cytosine, and glucose

3.

What are the three components of a nucleotide?

a)

sugar, hydrogen, nitrogen base

b)

sugar, oxygen, nitrogen base

c)

sugar, phosphate, nitrogen base

d)

sugar, phosphate, protein

4.

If a DNA molecule is 18% Guanine which of the following is correct

a)

18% cytosine, 32% adenine, 32% thymine

b)

32% cytosine, 18% adenine, 32% thymine

c)

18% cytosine, 64% adenine, 64% thymine

d)

32% cytosine, 32% adenine, 18% thymine

5.

Which of the following best describes a DNA molecule?

a)

double helix

b)

contains ribose

c)

made of amino acids

d)

contains Uracil

6.

Why is DNA important?

a)

it is very small and very complicated

b)

it's in everything

c)

it serves as the blueprint for traits of all living things

d)

because we eat it every day for energy

7.

What determines the code, or information, of a DNA molecule?

a)

the shape (structure) of the nitrogen bases

b)

the order (sequence) of the nitrogen bases

c)

the colour of the nitrogen bases

d)

the frequency (number) of nitrogen bases

8.

Nitrogenous bases are joined by which type of bond?

a)

polar bonds

b)

ionic bonds

c)

covalent bonds

d)

hydrogen bonds

9.

A long chain of amino acids is a/an

a)

protein

b)

nucleic acid

c)

tRNA

d)

mRNA

10.

The sugar in DNA is ?

a)

sucrose

b)

glucose

c)

deoxyribose

d)

ribose

11.

The building block of nucleic acids are nucleotides.  Nucleotides are composed of a sugar, a phosphate group, and a _________________ base.

a)

oxygen

b)

hydrogen

c)

nitrogen

d)

carbon

12.

What does DNA stand for?

a)

Deoxyribonucleic acid

b)

Denitrogenous acid

c)

Deribonucleic acid

d)

Diribonucleic acid

13.

In eukaryotes, which organelle is DNA usually found in?

a)

cytoplasm

b)

vacuole

c)

ribosome

d)

nucleus

14.

In prokaryotes, which organelle is DNA usually found in?

a)

cytoplasm

b)

vacuole

c)

chloroplast

d)

nucleus