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DNA and Mutations Quiz Review 

1. What are the names of the nucleotides for: DNA and RNA? 
 

 
 
2.  What enzyme is responsible for unwinding the DNA during replication? 

3. What are the complimentary base pairs in DNA?

4. What enzyme is responsible for adding nucleotides during DNA replication?

5. What enzyme is responsible for adding nucleotides during the transcription of mRNA?

6. What are the complimentary base pairs in RNA?

 
7. What are the three main types of RNA? 

8. What is each type of RNA responsible for?

9. What are two main differences between the structures of DNA and RNA?

10. Explain how protein synthesis occurs.

11. What is a codon?

12. What are the building blocks of nucleic acids?

13. Draw and label the structure of a Nucleotide?

 14. What is a mutation?

15. How can mutations be caused?

16. What is a mutagen?

17. What is a point mutation? Give an example.

18. What is a frameshift mutation? Give the two examples and explain what each one does.

19. What is the function of a stop codon?

20. What are the 3 possible ways in which a mutation can affect an organism? Give an example of each.

21. What is the central dogma of Biology?

22. What are the two processes of protein synthesis in order?

23. What are the building blocks (monomers) of proteins?

24. What is an anticodon and where is it located?

25. Know how to transcribe, translate and turn DNA into amino acids. Try Practicing in the space below.

DNA: ACC TTT GAT TCC AGG GCT TGC ATT CCA GGA ACT

mRNA:

tRNA:

Amino Acids: