DNA
RNA
Protein Synthesis
Practice
Miscellaneous
100

The sugar that is part of DNA

What is deoxyribose?

100

The sugar that is found in RNA

What is Ribose?

100

Translation of RNA to protein happens here

What is a Ribosome?

100

Find the complementary strand of DNA for ATCG.

What is TAGC

100

These are the building blocks of proteins.

What are amino acids?

200

The 4 nitrogen bases of DNA

What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?

200

The sequence of nucleotide bases on mRNA that would complement the following bases on DNA:       A T T C G C A G T

What is U A A G C G U C A

200

DNA is copied into a strand of RNA during this step of protein synthesis.

What is Transcription?

200

Find the Messenger for this sequence: ATC CAT

What is UAG GUA?

200

The nucleotide that indicates the nucleic acid is RNA

What is uracil?

300

Two things that happen in the nucleus involving DNA

What are DNA Replication and Transcription?

300

The full names for the three different types of RNA

What are messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA?

300

The type of RNA that brings in the genetic code from the nucleus to other parts of the cell

What is messenger RNA?

300

Find the complementary sequence for this strand of DNA: AAA GCG TTC

What is TTT CGC AAG?

300

These special types of proteins help to unzip DNA

What is helicase?

400

The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block)

What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogen base?

400

The names of the 4 nitrogen bases of RNA.

What are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Uracil?

400

Groups of three bases on a mRNA molecule

What is a codon?

400

Use the codon chart to determine the amino acid for this codon: UGA

What is a stop codon?

400

What enzyme is used to add base pairs to the strand of DNA?

What is polymerase?

500

A segment of DNA that codes for the ability to make one type of protein is known as

What is a gene?

500

Two differences between the STRUCTURE of RNA and DNA.

What is DNA is double stranded and RNA is single stranded? What is RNA has RIbose and DNA has Deoxyribose? What is RNA has the base Uracil and DNA has the base Thymine?

500

This is the anticodon for CAG

What is GUC?

500

The original strand of DNA is ACA TAG. Find the mRNA and the amino acid it codes for.

What is UGU AUC, cysteine, isoleucine

500

The central dogma is 

What DNA to RNA to Proteins?