Chapter 3: Lesson 3 Nucleic Acids

Question 1

How many different kinds of nucleotides are there?

Answer 1

Five

Question 2

What kind of bond joins the two strands in the DNA together?

Answer 2

Hydrogen bonds

Question 3

What are the base pairing rules of DNA?

Answer 3

Adenine, thymine
Guanine, cytosine

Question 4

What are the parts of nucleotides that bind together to form a polynucleotide?

Answer 4

Phosphates of one nucleotide bonds to sugar of next nucleotide
“Sugar-phosphate backbone”

Question 5

What are the variable parts of nucleotides?

Answer 5

Nitrogenous bases

Question 6

What are the three parts of nucleotides?

Answer 6

Phosphate functional group
5-carbon sugar
Nitrogenous base

Question 7

What are the monomers called in the nucleus acid group?

Answer 7

Nucleotides

Question 8

Which category of organic compounds is ultimately produced from gene expression?

Answer 8

Protein

Question 9

Which nucleic acid molecule is used for gene expression?

Answer 9

RNA

Question 10

Which nucleic acid molecule is used for information storage and transmission?

Answer 10

DNA

Question 11

What is transcription?

Answer 11

Process of copying the information in DNA into RNA

Question 12

What is translation?

Answer 12

Process of using RNA information to make a polypeptide