DNA

Question 1

What is the process by which mRNA is used to make amino acids?

Answer 1

Translation

Question 2

What is the process by which DNA makes another strand of DNA?

Answer 2

DNA Replication

Question 3

What is the process by which DNA is converted into mRNA?

Answer 3

Transcription

Question 4

What are the processes that make up the “Central Dogma” of molecular biology?

Answer 4

1. Replication
2. Transcription
3. Translation

Question 5

What is the shape of DNA?

Answer 5

A Double Helix

Question 6

Who made the discovery of the shape of DNA?

Answer 6

Watson and Crick

Question 7

Who took Photo 51?

Answer 7

Rosalind Franklin

Question 8

What are the rules of base pairing?

Answer 8

Adenine to Thymine

Guanine to Cytosine

Question 9

Who created the rules of base pairing?

Answer 9

Erwin Chargaff

Question 10

What base does mRNA contain that’s not in DNA?

Answer 10

Uracil

Question 11

What is the enzyme that adds nucleotides to DNA and also proofreads?

Answer 11

DNA Polymerase

Question 12

Mutations that occur at a single point in DNA?

Answer 12

Point Mutations

Question 13

What is a change in DNA sequence?

Answer 13

Mutation

Question 14

Mutation where a nucleotide is inserted?

Answer 14

Insertion

Question 15

Mutation where a nucleotide is deleted?

Answer 15

Deletion

Question 16

Mutation that changes the entire reading frame of the genetic message?

Answer 16

Frameshift Mutation

Question 17

Examples of Frameshift Mutations

Answer 17

1. Insertions

2. Deletions

Question 18

Gene that is transcribed into RNA?

Answer 18

Expressed Genes