MOL BIO PRELIM LEC 1 NUCLEIC ACIDS PRACTICE QUIZ

The flow of information from DNA to RNA to protein is

termed as transcription.

• TRUE

• FALSE

When DNA is replicated, each strand of the double helix

serves as a template for the manufacture of a new strand of

DNA. In each of the daughter DNA strands, one strand from

the parent DNA is present.

• Dispersive replication

• Semiconservative replication

• Non-conservative replication

• Conservative replication

Created the term ‘nucleic acid’ in 1889.

• Friedrich Miescher

• James Watson & Francis Crick

• Richard Altmann

• Oswald Avery

The basic component of biological nucleic acids

• Pentose sugar

• Nucleotides

• Nucleotide base

• DNA

The bonds formed between two nitrogenous bases.

• Hydrogen bonds

• Sulfide bonds

• Covalent bonds

• Ionic bonds

Thymine-adenine bond is slightly stronger than the

cytosine-guanine bond.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Compared with DNA, RNA is relatively resistant to UV

damage.

• TRUE

• FALSE

RNA is self-replicating

• TRUE

• FALSE

The bonds formed within nucleotides.

• Sulfide bonds

• Ionic bonds

• Hydrogen bonds

• Phosphodiester bonds

Which of the following nitrogenous bases is not found in the

RNA?

• Uracil

• Adenine

• Guanine

• Thymine

• Cytosine