L2: Structure of DNA

Question 1

What are the 4 bases?

Answer 1

Guanine and Cytosine & Adenine and Thymine

Question 2

What are the base pairs?

Answer 2

• Guanine and Cytosine (G&C)
• Adenine and Thymine (A&T)

Question 3

What is a polymer?

Answer 3

Large molecules made up of repeating units called monomers

Question 4

What are natural polymer examples?

Answer 4

DNA, protein

Question 5

What is the base pair for Adenine?

Answer 5

Thymine

Question 6

What is the base pair for Guanine?

Answer 6

Cytosine

Question 7

What is the name for the backbone of DNA?

Answer 7

Sugar-phosphate backbone

Question 8

What is a nucleotide?

Answer 8

One monomer of the polymer, DNA

Question 9

What are the bonds between two sides?

Answer 9

Hydrogen bonds

Question 10

What is the shape of DNA?

Answer 10

Double helix

Question 11

What joins the two sugar-phosphate strands of the double helix together?

Answer 11

The base pairs

Question 12

What makes up your genes?

Answer 12

The sequence of the base pairs

Question 13

How many part does a nucleotide, one unit, have?

Answer 13

3

Question 14

What are the names of the 3 components of a nucleotide?

Answer 14

Sugar (deoxyribose), Phosphate and the base

Question 15

What is a gene?

Answer 15

A short section of DNA that contains instructions for the proteins to be made that make up your characteristics/traits

Question 16

Where are the chromosones found in a cell?

Answer 16

Nucleus

Question 17

A chromosone is tightly coiled..

Answer 17

DNA