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DNA technology (CCEA AS level Biology) - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 836 times
- The average score is 7 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The full name of DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acids | 78%
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| What base does cytosine pair with? | Guanine | 77%
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| What is the shape of DNA | Double helix | 75%
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| Which base replaces thymine in RNA | Uracil | 74%
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| What percentage of new DNA is original? | 50% | 60%
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| The two strands of DNA run ____________ to each other | Antiparallel | 44%
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| What kind of sugar (based off of carbon number) is in DNA and RNA? | Pentose sugar | 42%
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| Nucleic acids are made up of... | Nucleotides | 39%
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| How does DNA replicate? | Semi-conservative replication | 35%
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| What is the bond between the sugar and the phosphate called? | Phosphodiester | 34%
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| There are two groups of bases, purines and... | Pyrimidines | 33%
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| What reaction is taq polymerase used in? | Polymerase chain reaction | 32%
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| What type of RNA is made in the nucleolus? | Ribosomal RNA | 21%
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| What temperature is the target DNA heated to during the above reaction to break the hydrogen bonds holding it together? (In celsius) | Annealing Temperature | 15%
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| What is used to seperate the fragments created by fragmentation of the above? | Gel electrophoresis | 12%
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| A strand of single-stranded DNA of a known base sequence, labelled with either a radioactive or a fluorescent marker is called a... | DNA probe | 10%
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| What is it called when the above answer forms hydrogen bonds with its target DNA? | Hybridisation | 6%
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| What experiment proved that DNA replicated this way? | Meselson-Stahl | 4%
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| What nucleotide sequence is a variation in the DNA sequence of a genome which can be used to fragment DNA by using a resriction enzyme? | Restriction fragment length polymorphisms | 3%
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| What does the genetic code carried by DNA determine? | Which proteins the cell makes | 2%
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