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Unit Screening What Is in Your Genes

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the SUBUNIT of nucleic acids called DNA?

a)
Glycerol
b)
Monosaccharides
c)
Amino Acids
d)
Nucleotides
2.
What are the components of a nucleotide?
a)

nitrogen base, phosphate group, and pentose (5Carbon) sugar

b)
pentose sugar, purine, and pyrimidine
c)
nitrogen base and a phosphate group
d)
DNA, phosphate group, monosaccharide
3.

Which is this molecule called?

a)
lipid
b)
protein
c)

nucleotide

d)
carbohydrate
4.

Which of the following is NOT part of a nucleotide?

a)

Nitrogenous Base

b)

Phosphate Group

c)

Pentose Sugar

d)

Fatty Acid

5.

What sugar is found in DNA?

a)

Glucose

b)

Ribose

c)

Deoxyribose

d)

Fructose

6.

Which of these is true about DNA?

a)
Has a double helix
b)
Has a single helix
c)
Contains thymine
7.
Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine are what?
a)
Phosphates
b)
Sugars
c)
Nucleotides
d)

Nitrogenous Bases

8.

What is the shape of DNA?

a)

Double Hyperbola

b)

Paraolic

c)

Double Helix

d)

Linear

9.

Factors that control traits are called

a)

parents

b)

genes

c)

purebreds

d)

recessives

10.

The different forms of a gene are called

a)

factors

b)

alleles

c)

masks

d)

traits

11.

Where in the cell is DNA found?

a)

Nucleus

b)

Cytoplasm

c)

Chloroplast

d)

Cell Membrane

12.
The drawing shows the structure of what molecule?
a)
A DNA molecule
b)
A lipid molecule
c)
A carbohydrate molecule
d)
A protein molecule
13.

What does DNA stand for?

a)

Deoxyribonucleic acid

b)

Denitrogenous acid

c)

Deribonucleic acid

d)

Diribonucleic acid

14.

What are sections of DNA called?

a)

DNA

b)

Genes

c)

Chromosomes

d)

Nucleus

15.

A segment of DNA that codes for a trait

a)

gene

b)

centromere

c)

chromosome

d)

chromatid

16.

A version or variation of a gene

a)

trait

b)

gene

c)

allele

d)

DNA

17.

Long strands of DNA are wrapped into

a)

DNA

b)

Chromosome

c)

Alleles

d)

Phenotype

18.

Which of the following statements about chromosomes is correct?

a)

Chromosomes are found in the nucleus of all cells in the human body

b)

Chromosomes contain DNA

c)

All of the above

19.

What does DNA stand for?

a)

Deoxyribonucleic acid

b)

ribosenucleic acid

c)

Deoxyribose

d)

Nucleic acid

20.

From smallest to largest how would genetic information be organized?

a)

genes, cell, nucleus, chromosome, DNA

b)

chromosome, cell, gene, DNA, nucleus

c)

nucleotides, gene, chromosome, nucleus, cell

d)

nucleus, cell, gene, DNA, chromosome