Sample Quiz

In fermentation, energy is harvested from sugar without oxygen

An RNA strand is so similar to a DNA strand that the two can base-pair even if their nucleotide sequences are NOT complementary

Both plants and animals depend on cellular respiration 24 hours a day, every second, in every cell.

61 sense codons encode the 20 amino acids. The genetic code involves degeneracy.

What are the three components of a DNA nucleotide?

Fermentation produces much more ATP than aerobic respiration

The base that is not found in DNA, but only in RNA is ________.

In cells, ATP is a common energy currency molecule. Breaking a bond in ATP releases energy that can be used to drive other processes

How many nucleotides are required to code for 15 amino acids

Which process results in the creation of mRNA?

What is the role of chloroplasts in animals?

Which stage of photosynthesis, if any, can function in the dark?

Two ____________ of a pair have the same length, shape, and centromere location. They hold information about the same trait

After replication, each chromosome consists of two DNA molecules (sister chromatids) that attach at a ___________region

What is the main purpose of cellular respiration?

Why does transcription occur in the nucleus and not in the cytoplasm in eukaryotes?

Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is the main component of ribosomes, which assemble amino acids into polypeptide chains

Where does cellular respiration in eukaryotes occur?

Identify the stage of cellular respiration where glucose is split into two molecules of pyruvic acid.

DNA replication is a semi-conservative process. This means that after replication, ________.

How is translation initiated?

If you know that a DNA double helix consists of 30 % adenine, what percentage of the DNA double helix is guanine (G)?

Which of the following best describes the chemical equation for photosynthesis?

DNA polymerase can attach a nucleotide only to a 3′ end

What are the main by-products of cellular respiration?

During which stage of cellular respiration is the majority of the ATP produced?

What happens to the ATP molecule after it has been used to do work?

The genetic code is ________.

What is a gene?

Essential properties of hereditary material include

tRNA molecules also have an anticodon that base-pairs with the codon

Carbon fixation means carbon from an inorganic source gets incorporated into an organic molecule

Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding DNA and RNA?

A Calorie is the amount of chemical energy stored in food.

Alcohol is a waste product produced by yeast in the presence of sugar and the absence of ________.

What is the role of light in photosynthesis?

A codon is ________.

If the base sequence of template DNA strand reads GCCATTAC, what is the base sequence of the mRNA?

According to the base pairing rules of DNA, if the sequence of bases on one strand was TCCGAAT , what would be the sequence of bases on the complementary strand of DNA?

If DNA directs the production of RNA, what does RNA make?

Which of the following is not a modification to the mRNA before leaving the nucleus?

What does "transfer RNA" actually transfer?

We can generate ATP from many different food inputs

The reactions of fermentation function to produce _______ molecules for further use in glycolysis.

_________________ is a length of DNA wound twice around a spool of histone proteins

What molecule(s) link the light reactions (stage 1 of photosynthesis) to the Calvin cycle (stage 2 of photosynthesis)?

Aerobic respiration happens in only consumers

What is the correct sequence of events during translation?

Exons are regions of DNA that code for proteins

The chemical inputs for cellular respiration and photosynthesis are reciprocal