chapter 10

Question 1

Which of the following is not one of the three ways that viruses can get into a plant

Answer 1

Through the stomata

Question 2

What type of mutation would occur if an amino acid replaced another in a sequence

Answer 2

Substitution

Question 3

Which organelle coordinates translation

Answer 3

Ribosomes

Question 4

Which of the following does not participate directly in translation: ribosomes, transfer RNA, messenger dRNA, DNA

Answer 4

DNA

Question 5

__ is the use of information in an RNA molecule for the synthesis of a polypeptide

Answer 5

Translation

Question 6

Which of the following is not a phase of transcription

Answer 6

Splicing

Question 7

Of the 64 codons, how many are start codons

Answer 7

1

Question 8

What is the sugar phosphate backbone

Answer 8

Nucleotides joined together by covalent bonds between the sugar of one nucleotide and the phosphate of the next

Question 9

Which of the following geneticists is not responsible for the discovery of DNA’s double helix

Answer 9

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Question 10

Long chains of chemical units are called

Answer 10

Nucleotides