Molecular Genetics Integrated Science Quiz
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What amino acid would GGA code for?
A. glycine
B. alanine
C. arginine
D. proline
What is replication?
A. Copying DNA
B. Copying RNA
C. Copying Amino Acids
D. Making Proteins
What do the instructions in genes code for?
A. proteins
B. ribosomes
C. purines
D. pyrimidines
DNA contains the sugar _________, RNA contains the sugar ____________.
A. deoxyribose, ribose
B. ribose, deoxyribose
C. thymine, uracil
D. uracil, thymine
What is a stop codon?
A. signals the end of a growing polypeptide chain
B. signals the start of a polypeptide chain
C. signals the mutation in a polypeptide chain
D. signals an amino acid in a polypeptide chain
In DNA, percentages of A are the same as ___, and the percentages of C are the same as ___.
A. T, G
B. G, T
C. U, G
D. T, C
Deoxyribose sugar + phosphate group + cytosine could be found in
A. DNA
B. RNA
What structures make up a DNA nucleotide?
A. deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group, nitrogen base
B. ribose sugar, phosphate group, nitrogen base
C. glucose sugar, phosphate group, nitrogen base
D. cellulose sugar, phosphate group, nitrogen base
What is this molecule? What does it do?
A. mRNA; carries the message from DNA to the ribosome
B. tRNA; transfers the amino acids to the polypeptide chain
C. rRNA; reads the message from the mRNA
What is transcription?
A. making of RNA off of DNA
B. making more DNA
C. making amino acids
D. making protein
What is this molecule? What does it do?
A. mRNA; carries the message from DNA to ribosome
B. tRNA; transfers the amino acids to the polypeptide chain
C. rRNA; reads the message from the mRNA
The mRNA codon UCU has the anti-codon _____.
A. AGA
B. UCU
C. TGT
D. UGU
DNA is found in the _________ in eukaryotes, and in the _________ in prokaryotes.
A. nucleus, cytoplasm
B. cytoplasm, nucleus
C. mitochondria, cytoplasm
D. nucleus, mitochondria
True or False: DNA’s sugar is deoxyribose, and RNA has ribose
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
During DNA replication, if a strand has bases TGGATC, what are the complimentary bases?
A. ACCTAG
B. TGGATC
C. ACCUAG
D. UCCTUG