Genetic Code Quiz

The amino acid, Arginine, has 6 possible codons.

• True

• False

The amino acid, Serine, has 4 possible codons.

• True

• False

_______________________ means "bacteria eater."

• Bacteriophage

• Bacteriomuncher

• Bacteriophile

• Bacteriomace

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Pieces, known as ___________, or intervening sequences, are cut out of RNA molecules while they are still in the cell nucleus.

• exons

• introns

• outtrons

• ytrons

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Watson and Crick's model of DNA was a double helix, in which two strands were wound around each other.

• True

• False

Ribosomes are made up of several dozen proteins, as well as a form of RNA known as ____________________.

• tRNA

• rRNA

• mRNA

• sRNA

Which one is NOT one of the four kinds of bases found in DNA?

• Adenine

• Uracil

• Cytosine

• Guanine

Portions, called ____________, or expressed sequences, are then spliced back together to form the final mRNA.

• DNA

• RNA

• introns

• exons

Inserting an extra nucleotide is called a __________________ mutations

• frame

• shift

• frameshift

• nucleotide

The amino acid, Glutamine, has 2 possible codons.

• True

• False