Dna

Question 1

What is DNA made up of?

Answer 1

Nucleotide

Question 2

What shape in DNA in?

Answer 2

Double helix

Question 3

What is the backbone made out of?

Answer 3

Phosphate sugar group

Question 4

What sugar is used in DNA?

Answer 4

Deoxyribose

Question 5

What sugar is used in RNA?

Answer 5

Ribose

Question 6

What is a nitrogenous base? Give 4-5 examples

Answer 6

A-adenine, thymine, g-guanine, c-cytosine, u-uricail

Question 7

What are the DNA nitrogenous base pairings?

Answer 7

A=t, c = G

Question 8

If DNA was stretched out how long would it be?

Answer 8

Over 1.5m

Question 9

How are the nitrogenous bases bonded?

Answer 9

Hydrogen bonds

Question 10

Which bases have what hydrogen bonds?

Answer 10

A&T =2 hydrogen bonds

C&G =3 hydrogen bonds

Question 11

Total #of codons?

Answer 11

64

Question 12

What is a codon?

Answer 12

A set of 3 nitrogenous bases which give instructions to RNA to code proteins

Question 13

What does DNA determine?

Answer 13

What amino acids are strung together

Question 14

What is a gene?

Answer 14

A segment of DNA that controls gene expression of specific codons to code for certain traits / protein

Question 15

What are the nitrogenous bases of RNA?

Answer 15

A-adinine, u- uracil, c-cytosine, G- guanine

Question 16

What does DNA stand for?

Answer 16

Deoxyribonucleic acid

Question 17

What does RNA stand for?

Answer 17

Ribonucleis acid

Question 18

Where is DNA located?

Answer 18

Within the nucleus

Question 19

What is DNA made of?

Answer 19

Nucleic acid

Question 20

What organelles can be found in?

Answer 20

Mitrochrondria and chloroplast

Question 21

Why do we have mRNA?

Answer 21

Since DNA is too large to fit through nucleus pores

Question 22

Why is DNA often referred to as a blueprint?

Answer 22

DNA tells the cell how to build

Question 23

What are the parts of “useless” DNA called

Answer 23

Introns

Question 24

What are the parts of codable DNA called?

Answer 24

Exon

Question 25

What is a his tone?

Answer 25

DNA wraps around histones which are proteins

Question 26

What are nucleosomes?

Answer 26

A subunit of a chromatin, a segment of DNA wraps around the histone

Question 27

Purines (definition)

Answer 27

2 ringed

Question 28

Pyrimidines(definition)

Answer 28

3 ringed

Question 29

Which are purines?

Answer 29

Gand A

Question 30

Which are prymidines?

Answer 30

C+t

Question 31

What are the components of DNA? (Nucleotide)

Answer 31

phosphate group, deoxyribose sugar, nitrogenous use

Question 32

What are the components of RNA

Answer 32

Phosphate group, ribose sugar, nitrogenous bases