Statistics for A Level Biology - Nucleic Acids 2.3

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Definition	Keyword	% Correct
Shape of DNA molecule	Double helix	92%
Molecule that when repeated makes up a polymer	Monomer	86%
Molecule consisting of a five-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base	Nucleotide	76%
The process of making messenger RNA from a DNA template	Transcription	66%
Enzyme that catalyses formation of DNA	DNA Polymerase	65%
Formation of a protein, at ribosomes, by assembling amino acids into a particular sequence according to the coded instructions carried from DNA to the ribosome by mRNA	Translation	63%
Enzyme that catalyses the breaking of hydrogen bonds between the nitrogenous pairs of bases in a DNA molecule	Helicase	61%
A large polypeptide of 100 or more amino acids	Protein	55%
A polymer made of many amino acid units joined together by peptide bonds	Polypeptide	49%
A length of DNA that codes for a polypeptide or for the length of RNA	Gene	44%
How DNA replicates, resulting in two new molecules, each of which contains one old strand and one new strand	Semi-conservative replication	44%
Large molecule containing many nucleotides	Polynucleotide	42%