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Science quiz

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 7hrs 30mins

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Class
Date
1.

Watson and Crick created a model in which two strands of nucleotides wound about each other. This formed twisting shape is called a?

a)

Base

b)

Double helix

c)

Phosphate group

d)

Sugar

2.

What is Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA):

a)

Where your RNA is stored

b)

Where your cells are stored

c)

Where your memory is stored

d)

Molecule where the heritable genetic information of an organism is stored

3.

What is Nucleotide:

a)

The monomer unit of nucleic aids

b)

The unit of your cells

c)

The monomer of your RNA

d)

The monomer of your past

4.

Nucleotides have three parts: A ring shaped sugar called_____, A______group, A______: a single or double ring carbon and nitrogen atoms with the functional groups.

a)

Phosphate

b)

Sugar

c)

Nitrogenous base

d)

Deoxyribose

5.

What are all of these things are named?

a)

Chromosomes

b)

Sugar,phosphate,Nitrogenous base

c)

Double helix

d)

DNA

6.

The four nucleotides found in DNA differ only in the nitrogenous bases. Single ring structures:______(T)and_______(C). Larger, double ring structures:_________(A)and________(G)

a)

Phosphate

b)

H3C

c)

Thymine and Cytosine, Adenine and Guanine

d)

DNA

7.

Nucleotides monomers join together by covalent bonds between te sugar of one nucleotide and te phosphate of the next, forming a?

a)

Thymine

b)

Nitrogenous base

c)

Base

d)

Sugar-phosphate backbone

8.

The DNA structure that Watson and Crick made was made wit tin and wire tat formed a twisting shape called a double helix. The_________? Forming the double helix

a)

The bases pair up between the two Inter wine sugar phosphate back bones

b)

They made the 3D structure of DNA

c)

They make it Inter wined so it will look more like a DNA structure

d)

Nothing happens

9.

The pairings are due to the sizes of the bases and their abilities to form hydrogen bonds with eachother. The________pairs with the______, The_______pairs with the_______

a)

Adenine and thymine, Guanine and cytosine

b)

Phosphate and chromosomes, Mitosis and meiosis

c)

None of the above

d)

Hydrogen and nitrogen, Water and Cells

10.

(?)pairs with(?) and (?)pairs with(?)

a)

A and t, and G and C

b)

T and G, and A and C

c)

G and A, and C and T

d)

G and U, and C and T

11.

DNA copying uses a?

a)

Cell mechanism

b)

Copying mechanism

c)

Template mechanism

d)

Reputation mechanism

12.

How can cells copy DNA?

a)

They copy other cells that pass by with a mechanism

b)

Complementary base pairing

c)

Base pairing

d)

Duplicating

13.

What is DNA replication?

a)

The process of copying anything

b)

The process of copying Nitrogenous bases

c)

The process of copying cells

d)

The process of copying the DNA molecule

14.

What is Daughter Strands?

a)

None of above

b)

The two new strands of DNA formed

c)

The two new phosphates formed to make DNA

d)

The new DNA that comes when it is fully formed

15.

DNA to DNA

a)

G=A

C=T

A=G

T=C

b)

U=A

C=T

T-C

A=U

c)

A=T

C=G

G=C

T=A

d)

C=B

B=C

G=P

P=G

16.

DNA to RNA

a)

A=U

C=G

G=c

T=A

b)

RNA equals DNA

c)

U=A

G=T

T=A

A=P

d)

G=T

A=G

G=T

P=R

17.

Period between cell division

a)

Prophase

b)

Mitosis

c)

Interphase

d)

Chromsomes

18.

Cytoplasmic division of a cell which results in the separation into 2 daughter cells

a)

Cytokinesis

b)

Chromatid

c)

Anaphase

d)

Telophase

19.

Genetic information bundled into packages of DNA

a)

Centriole

b)

telophase

c)

Chromosomes

d)

Interphase

20.

Biological process by which new individual organisms are produced from their “parents”

a)

Reproduction

b)

Mitosis

c)

Anaphase

d)

Chromsomes

21.

Phase in which chromosomes line up across the center of the cell

a)

Chromatic

b)

Metaphase

c)

Centriole

d)

Reproduction

22.

Phase in which genetic material inside nucleus condenses chromosomes become visible

a)

Interphase

b)

Cytokinesis

c)

Anaphase

d)

Prophase

23.

Distinct individual chromosomes begin to spread out into a tangle of chromatin

a)

Prophase

b)

Anaphase

c)

Telophase

d)

Centriole

24.

Structure in animals cells that helps organize cell division

a)

Centriole

b)

Interphase

c)

Phosphate

d)

Mitosis

25.

One of two identical “sister” parts of a duplicated chromosomes

a)

Nucleus

b)

Chromosomes

c)

Nitrogenous

d)

Chromatid

26.

Chromosomes separate and move to opposite ends of the cell

a)

Phosphate

b)

Anaphase

c)

Prophase

d)

Interphase