Forensics DNA, bones, entomology

What is Deoxyribose Sugar

• A sugar found in vegetables and fruit

• A sugar that helps lose weight

• A type of sugar in baking

• makes up the sugar-phosphate backbone in deoxyribonucleic acid

Nitrogen bases are joined by which type of bond?

• polar bonds

• ionic bonds

• covalent bonds

• hydrogen bonds

What is a Double Helix

• A pair of perpendicular helixes intertwined about a common axis, especially in structure of DNA molecule

• A type of knot used in sailing

• A pair of parallel helixes intertwined about a common axis, especially in structure of DNA molecule

• A math equation

What do Y STRs help with?

• Trace ancestry through the male line

• Help find the activities before the victim died

• Help find the suspect

• Nothing

Which DNA base is paired with Thymine

• Adenine

• cytosine

• guanine

• Hydrogen bond

What is an nitrogenous base

• Something important for life

• A chemical reaction the produces electricity

• Compounds that form an important part of the nucleotide, also known as Nucleobase

• An element found in proteins

mtDNA is what?

• A type of genetic found in the body

• A form of DNA

• Only mothers pass mitochondrial DNA

• A gene found in both parents

What are the three compounds of a nucleotide?

• Nitrogenous base

• Phosphate group

• Sugar molecule

• Hydrogen bond

If one strand of a sequence of bases is:

AGCTCAG

What would the opposite strand be?

• CHUBADE

• TCGAGTC

• CGAGTTC

• ABODIAE

Assume that a 100-base pair DNA double helix contains 37 Guanine. How many Thymine are there?

• 55

• 13

• 78

• 65