DNA and Proteins

Why is DNA important?

• it is very small and very complicated

• it's in everything

• it serves as the blueprint for traits of all living things

• because we eat it every day for energy

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What does DNA stand for?

• Deoxyribonucleic acid

• Denitrogenous acid

• Deribonucleic acid

• Diribonucleic acid

Which statement about DNA is true?

• Different people can have the same copy of DNA in their cells.
  

• DNA is made up of genes that carry hereditary information.

• DNA controls the genotype but not the phenotype of an organism.
  

• DNA controls the genotype only in the second and third generations.
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Which is a part of the DNA that consists of a sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrogenous gas?

• DNA

• nucleotide

• base

• mutation

Which are the 4 DNA bases?

• RNA, adenine, thymine, guanine

• uracil, adenine, guanine, thymine,

• adenine, thymine, cytosine guanine

• RNA, DNA, ribosome, protein

These molecules are made up of amino acids.

• proteins

• bases

• ribosomes

• nucleii

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In a DNA molecule, which of the following bases pair together?

• adenine and cytosine

• thymine and adenine

• thymine and guanine

• cytosine and thymine

Which sequence of DNA bases would pair with this partial strand
ATG TGA CAG

• ATG TGA CAG

• TAC ACT GTC

• GTA AGT GAC

• CAT TCA CTG

Which of the following best describes a DNA molecule?

• double helix

• contains ribose

• made of amino acids

• contains Uracil

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one nucleotide is preplacced with a different nucleotide

• addition

• substitution(point)

• deletion

• inversion

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