DNA Basics

Which part of DNA is considered the "genetic code"?

• Bases
• Sugar
• Phosphate
• Hydrogen bonds

What will the matching sequence be on a strand that reads AAGCTAT?

• AACGATA
• TTCGTTA
• CCTGATA
• TTCGATA

What are the four nitrogen bases?

• adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine

• adenine, lysine, prolene, guanine

• arganine, cytosine, lysine, purine

• lysine, cytosine, lucine, guanine

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

DNA, in eukaryotes, is found within the...

• Nucleus
• Golgi apparatus
• Cytosol
• Outside the plasma membrane

In the Mammoth documentary, researchers were trying to find intact __________ that could be extracted and used to clone the extinct animal.

• protein

• bones

• DNA

• hair

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

What is the sugar in DNA called?

• Deoxyribose
• Dantein
• Diglyceride
• Dalvin

What is the monomer of nucleic acids?

• Glycerol
• Monosaccharides
• Amino Acids
• Nucleotides

Which of the following bases would not be found in DNA?

• Adenine
• Uracil
• Cytosine
• Guanine

What are the components of a nucleotide?

• nitrogen base, phosphate group, and 5-carbon sugar

• 5 carbon sugar, purine, and pyrimidine

• nitrogen base and a phosphate group

• DNA, phosphate group, monosaccharide

The shape of DNA is...

• Twisted helix
• Flat helix
• Hexagon
• Pentagon