Tag the questions with any skills you have. Your dashboard will track each student's mastery of each skill.
Give this quiz to my class
Q 1/26
Score 0
The alternating chain of sugar and phosphate to which the DNA and RNA nitrogenous bases are attached
30
sugar phosphate backbone
Q 2/26
Score 0
a pair of complementary nitrogenous bases in a DNA molecule
30
base pair
26 questions
Q.
The alternating chain of sugar and phosphate to which the DNA and RNA nitrogenous bases are attached
1
30 sec
Q.
a pair of complementary nitrogenous bases in a DNA molecule
2
30 sec
Q.
adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, or uracil
3
30 sec
Q.
The base that pairs with Thymine in DNA, Uracil in RNA
4
30 sec
Q.
The base that pairs Adenine in DNA
5
30 sec
Q.
The base that pairs with Guanine with DNA
6
30 sec
Q.
The base that pairs with Cytosine in DNA
7
30 sec
Q.
The base that pairs with Adenine in RNA (instead of Thymine)
8
30 sec
Q.
In a nucleic-acid chain, a subunit that consists of a sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrogenous base
9
30 sec
Q.
(DNA) A molecule that is present in all living cells and contains the information that determines the traits that a living thing inherits in order to live.
10
30 sec
Q.
Discovered that Adenine is always equal to Thymine and Guanine is always equal to Cytosine in DNA.
11
30 sec
Q.
Woman who generated x-ray images of DNA, she provided Watson and Crick with key data about DNA
12
30 sec
Q.
Figured out structure of DNA was a double helix
13
30 sec
Q.
(RNA) A single-stranded nucleic acid that contains the sugar ribose and Uracil (instead of Thymine).
14
30 sec
Q.
An enzyme that separates ("unzips") DNA strands
15
30 sec
Q.
An enzyme that catalyzes and builds the missing half of the DNA molecule.
16
30 sec
Q.
An enzyme that makes the primer that directs DNA polymerase.
17
30 sec
Q.
An enzyme that connects the fragments of DNA to close the gaps.
18
30 sec
Q.
When a section of DNA in a gene is copied into mRNA
19
30 sec
Q.
(messenger RNA) A type of RNA that carries instructions from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome.
20
30 sec
Q.
When mRNA is decoded and a protein is produced.
21
30 sec
Q.
(transfer RNA) A type of RNA that carries amino acids to the ribosome to make a protein.
22
30 sec
Q.
A change in a gene or chromosome.
23
30 sec
Q.
DNA mutation in which one nitrogeneous base (nucleotide) is changed to another.
24
30 sec
Q.
DNA mutation in which one or more pairs of nucleotides are removed from a gene.
25
30 sec
Q.
DNA mutation involving the addition of one or more nucleotide pairs to a gene..
