Genetic Mutations

Genetic Mutations

7th Grade

15 Qs

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Genetic Mutations

Genetic Mutations

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Quiz

Science

7th Grade

Practice Problem

Easy

NGSS
HS-LS3-2, HS-LS1-1, HS-LS3-1

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What usually happens to a cell whose DNA has been damaged?

It has trouble manufacturing certain proteins.

Its genetic material leaves the nucleus.

It is able to produce twice as many proteins as normal cells.

It shrinks to half its normal size.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When do random, or spontaneous, mutations happen?

During cell division.

When cells are exposed to hazardous materials.

When cells are exposed to certain viruses.

When cells are exposed to radiation.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What type of mutation occurs when, one nucleotide is replaced with a different nucleotide?

addition

substitution(point)

deletion

inversion

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When a portion of the DNA is shifted in one direction due to a deletion or insertion?

frameshift

gene

deletion

substitution

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

A point mutation that does not change the amino acid sequence is known as a(n) ____________ mutation.

Frameshift

Nondisjunction

Inversion

Silent

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Genetic mutations that result in a stop codon being produced are called...

Silent

Missense

Nonsense

Frameshift

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

What causes "sickle shaped" blood cells?

Point Mutation

Frameshift Mutation

Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion

Gene Translocation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

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