AP Bio DNA Replication

Which of the following units are repeatedly joined together to form a strand of DNA? (This is the MONOMER of DNA.) 

• amino acids

• nucleotides

• fatty acids

• polysaccharides

Which 2 molecules forms the sides (backbone) of the DNA ladder?

• deoxyribose and adenine

• deoxyribose and a hydrogen bond

• sugar and the nucleus

• deoxyribose (sugar) and phosphate

What determines the code, or information, of a DNA molecule?

• the shape (structure) of the nitrogen bases

• the order (sequence) of the nitrogen bases

• the color of the nitrogen bases

• the frequency (number) of nitrogen bases

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Nitrogenous bases are joined by which type of bond?

• polar bonds

• ionic bonds

• covalent bonds

• hydrogen bonds

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

What process is shown in the image?

• Transcription

• Translation

• DNA Replication

• DNA Transformation

The goal of DNA replication is

• to make proteins in the cell

• to divide cells

• to make an identical copy of DNA

• to fix mistakes in the DNA

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The picture below shows the steps of DNA replication beginning with step one and ending with step three.

​Because you are reusing the old, or parent, DNA strand DNA replication is said to be

• Semi- Conservative

• Semi-discontinuous

• Continuous

• Fully-Conserveative

Polymerase is able to replicate the new DNA ______ along the leading strand.

• continuously

• only in short fragments

• very slowly

• prokaryotically

• F

• G

• H

• J

The enzyme that unzips the DNA to prepare for replication

• helicase

• replicase

• polymerase

• synthase