23112023 Class Practice Test # 01 Ranker Batch

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(Topic : Nucleic acids )
Time : 60 : 00 Min. (for JEE-Mains & Advanced 2024) Max. Marks :184
* Each question + 4 (for correct answer) & - 1 (for wrong answer)
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01. Which of the following bases is found in RNA and not in DNA ?
(a) Adenine (b) Guanine (c) Thymine (d) Uracil
02. Adenosine is the compound belonging to which of the following families ?
(a) Purine (b) Pyrimidine base (c) Nucleotide (d) Nucleoside
03. Which of the following is not a constituent of RNA :
(a) Ribose (b) Phosphate (c) Adenine (d) Pyridine
04. Which substance is not present in nucleic acid :
(a) Cytosine (b) Adenine (c) Thymine (d) Guanidine
05. A gene is segment of a molecules of :
(a) DNA (b) m–RNA (c) t–RNA (d) Protein
06. The base present in RNA, but not in DNA is.
(a) Uracil (b) Thymine (c) Cytosine (d) Guanine
07. Which one of the following is correct about H-bonding in nucleotide ?
(a) A-T, G-C (b) A-G, T-C (c) G-T, A-C (d) A-A, T-T
08. One of the DNA-strand of a double helix is in sequence AGGCAT, the complementary
strand of the given sequence will be :
(a) CTTACG (b) TCCGTA (c) ACCGAT (d) TGGCTA
09. Which of the following is not present in nucleic acids ?
(a) Uracil (b) 2-aminopyridine (c) Thymine (d) Adenine
10. RNA does not contain :
(a) thymine (b) adenine (c) guanine (d) uracil
11. DNA and RNA are chiral molecules due to the presence of :
(a) chiral base (b) phosphate-ester unit
(c) D-sugar component (d) L-sugar component
12. Giving ‘T’ symbol for true statement and ‘F’ symbol for fales statement, select suitable
option from the given options for following statements.
i. Cytosine base is the derivative of pyrimidine.
ii. ß - D Ribose sugar is present in DNA.
iii. The message for the synthesis of a specific protein is present in RNA.
iv. DNA is responsible for maintaining the identity of different species of organisms
for one century.
(a) TFFT (b) FFFT (c) FTFF (d) FFTF
13. Sugar present in DNA is :
(a)  – D - 2 – ribose (b)  – D - 2 – deoxyribose
(c)  - D – 2 – ribose (d)  - D – 2 – deoxyribose
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 14. Hydrolysis of which of the following nucleic acids does not give equal number of A and
T or G and C :
(A) m – RNA (B) single strand DNA (C) r – RNA (D) double helix DNA
(a) A, B, C (b) B, C, D (c) B only (d) A only
15. Choose the correct statements :
A. DNA does not contain uracil B. RNA does not contain thymine
C. RNA and DNA both have uracil D. RNA has both uracil and thymine
(a) A, B (b) C, D (c) A, C, D (d) B, C
16. The number of hydrogen bonds between guanine and cytosine; and between adenine
and thymine in DNA is :
(a) 1, 2 (b) 3, 2 (c) 3, 1 (d) 2, 1
17. Nucleoside contains :
(a) Tetrose (b) Hexose sugar + Nitrogenous base
(c) Pentose sugar + Pyridine (d) Pentose sugar + base
18. Consider the following species :
(A) H3PO4 (B) Ribose (C) Pyrimidine derivative
(D) H3PO3 (E) Purine derivative
The species present in nucleosides and nucleotide are :
(a) (B , D) , (B , D , E) (b) (C , D) , (A , B , C)
(c) (A , E) , (B , C , D) (d) (B , C) , (A , B , C)
19. Which of the following is pyrimidine derivative :
(a) Adenine (b) Guanine (c) Cytosine (d) Threonine
20. Difference in number of ‘N’ atoms between pyrimidine & purine is :
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3
21. Which is purine derivative ?
(a) Phenyl alanine (b) Adenine (c) Uracil (d) Thymine
22. Identify structure of thymine :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

23. Identify structure of adenine :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

24. Number of ‘N’ atoms in Adenine :

(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5
25. Number of sp carbons in pyrimidine :
2

(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5

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 26. Match the following
List I List II
1. Nucleic acid A) D.N.A.
2. Uracil B) Hormones
3. Thymine C) Polynucleotides
4. Double helix structure D) R.N.A
The correct matching is :
(a) 1  C ; 2  D ; 3  A ; 4  A (b) 1  C ; 2  A ; 3  A ; 4  D
(c) 1  C ; 2  D ; 3  B ; 4  A (d) 1  C ; 2  B ; 3  D ; 4  C
27. Which of the following is correct about H-bonding in nucleotide :
(a) A – T, G – C (b) G – T, A – C (c) A – A, T – T (d) A – G, T – C
28. A sequence of how many nucleotides in messenger RNA makes a codon for an amino
acid :
(a) One (b) Two (c) Three (d) Four
29. Number of sp3 carbon in Thymine :
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3
30. The difference in number of ‘N’ atoms between guanine & guanidine :
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3
31. ‘O’ atom is not present in ?
(a) Adenine (b) Guanine (c) Cytosine (d) Thymine
32. Which of the following is not present in RNA :
(a) Adenine (b) Guanine (c) Cytosine (d) Thymine
33. Identify structure of Guanine ribonucleotide :

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

34. Which of the following statement is not correct :

(a) In DNA, RNA the sugar is pentose.
(b) Uracil is present in RNA but not in DNA.
(c) Adenine is present in DNA & RNA .
(d) Guanine is present in one of the nucleic acid that is DNA & RNA .
35. The element not present in nucleotide is :
(a) N (b) P (c) S (d) O

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 36. In Nucleic acid the sugar present is :
(a) -ribose (b) -ribose (c) -arabionose (d) -arabinose
37. Thymine is :
(a) 5-methyl uracil (b) 4-methyl uracil
(c) 3-methyl uracil (d) 1-methyl uracil
38.The sum of no. of N atoms in pyridine, pyrimidine, purine is :
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 8
39. RNA and DNA are chiral molecules, their chirality is due to :
(a) L-sugar component (b) Chiral bases
(c) Chiral phosphate ester units (d) D-sugar component
40. Which of the following is incorrect ?
(a) Adenine is a purine derivative
(b) uracil is a pyrimidine derivative
(c) Both Adenine & Guanine contain equal no of N atoms.
(d) Both cytosine and thymine contain equal no. of oxygen atoms.
41. Which of the following is correct ?
(a) The sugar involved in the formation of DNA is 3-deoxy Ribose.
(b) Thymine is also called 5-Methyl Uracil.
(c) Adenine & cytosine contain equal no. of carbon atoms.
(d) Guanine and Uracil contain equal no. of carbon atoms.
42. The base present in cytidine is :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

43. DNA consists of two polynucleotide chains, Each chain forms a right-handed spiral with
how many bases in one turn of spiral ?
(a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 10
44. A nucleoside on hydrolysis gives :
(a) A heterocyclic base and orthophosphoric acid.
(b) An aldopentose, a heterocyclic base and orthophosphoric acid.
(c) An aldopentose and a heterocyclic base.
(d) An aldopentose and orthophosphoric acid.
45. In DNA, the linkages between different nitrogenous bases are :
(a) Phosphate linkage (b) H-bonding
(c) Glycosidic linkage (d) Peptide linkage
46. In nucleic acids the nucleotides are linked by :
(a) Ester linkage (b) Amide linkage (c) Peptide linkage (d) Glycosidic linkage

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