Statistics for DNA technology (CCEA AS level Biology)

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The full name of DNA	Deoxyribonucleic Acids	79%
What base does cytosine pair with?	Guanine	77%
What is the shape of DNA	Double helix	75%
Which base replaces thymine in RNA	Uracil	74%
What percentage of new DNA is original?	50%	60%
The two strands of DNA run ____________ to each other	Antiparallel	43%
What kind of sugar (based off of carbon number) is in DNA and RNA?	Pentose sugar	42%
Nucleic acids are made up of...	Nucleotides	39%
How does DNA replicate?	Semi-conservative replication	35%
What is the bond between the sugar and the phosphate called?	Phosphodiester	33%
There are two groups of bases, purines and...	Pyrimidines	33%
What reaction is taq polymerase used in?	Polymerase chain reaction	32%
What type of RNA is made in the nucleolus?	Ribosomal RNA	21%
What temperature is the target DNA heated to during the above reaction to break the hydrogen bonds holding it together? (In celsius)	Annealing Temperature	16%
What is used to seperate the fragments created by fragmentation of the above?	Gel electrophoresis	12%
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%
What is it called when the above answer forms hydrogen bonds with its target DNA?	Hybridisation	6%
What experiment proved that DNA replicated this way?	Meselson-Stahl	4%
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%
What does the genetic code carried by DNA determine?	Which proteins the cell makes	2%