Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis Team – Game – Tournament Questions
1. What is the name of the molecule that stores and transmits the genetic information
from one generation of organism to the next?
2. DNA is a polymer formed from subunits called …?
3. Name the three basic parts that make up a DNA nucleotide?
4. Name the four DNA nucleotides?
5. Name the two nitrogenous bases that makeup the purines?
6. Name the two nitrogenous bases that make up the pyrimidines?
7. Name the 5 carbon sugar found in DNA?
8. Describe the three dimensional structure of DNA?
9. Name the two scientists that “discovered” the structure of DNA?
10. The attraction of complementary nitrogenous bases in DNA is called…?
11. Adenine always pairs with …?
12. Cytosine always pairs with …?
13. If a sample of DNA is 15% thymine, then how much of the DNA is cytosine?
14. The copying of DNA into two identical daughter strands is called …?
15. Name the three enzymes involved in DNA replication?
16. What is the role of DNA helicase in DNA replication?
17. What is the role of DNA polymerase in DNA replication?
18. What is the role of DNA ligase in DNA replication?
19. Name the type of bonds that occur between complementary DNA bases in a DNA
double helix?
20. If the one of the parent strands is ATGCGT, then the complementary daughter
strand is …?
21. What are the two functions of DNA?
22. Name the molecule that acts as a messenger between DNA and the ribosomes?
23. Describe the three dimensional structure of RNA?
24. RNA is a polymer of subunits called …?
25. Name the three subunits of a RNA nucleotide?
26. Name the 5 carbon sugar present in RNA?
27. Name the four nitrogenous bases present in RNA?
28. What is the name of the process that produces RNA by using DNA as a template?
29. In transcription, adenine is to …?
30. In transcription , guanine is to …?
31. Name the three types of RNA?
32. What role does messenger RNA have in the cell?
33. What role does transfer RNA have in the cell?
34. What role does ribosomal RNA have in the cell?
35. What enzyme is utilized in the formation of RNA during transcription?
36. Groups of three messenger RNA nucleotides are called a …?
37. Groups of three transfer RNA nucleotides are called an …?
38. Each codon of messenger RNA corresponds to an ___________ in a protein.
39. The process of decoding a messenger RNA into a protein sequence is called …?
40. If the DNA code is ATG, then the messenger RNA codon is …?
41. If the messenger RNA codon is AUG, then the transfer RNA anticodon is …?
42. What is the role of the ribosome in protein synthesis?
43. If a certain protein has 100 amino acids, then how many nucleotides must be
present in the messenger RNA molecule?
44. UAG is the “Stop” codon. What would happen if the uracil was replaced with a
cytosine?
45. Where does replication occur in the cell?
46. Where does transcription occur in the cell?
47. Where does translation occur in the cell?
48. The name given to the concept that each daughter double helix of DNA has one
DNA strand from the parent and one new DNA strand is called …?
49. To which organelle does messenger RNA attach?
50. If the code for an amino acid is ATG on the DNA molecule, this code on the
transfer RNA molecule must be …?
Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis Team – Game – Tournament Answers
1. DNA
2. DNA nucleotides
3. deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and a nitrogenous base
4. adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine
5. adenine and guanine
6. cytosine and thymine
7. deoxyribose
8. twisted ladder or double helix
9. Watson and Crick
10. base pairing
11. thymine
12. guanine
13. 35%
14. replication
15. helicase, polymerase, ligase
16. “unzipping” the double helix by breaking hydrogen bonds between
complementary base pairs
17. bringing free-floating DNA nucleotides to the unzipped parent DNA strand and
bonding them together
18. to tie the new double helix together at the sugar-phosphate bonds
19. hydrogen bonds
20. TACGCA
21. pass on heredity information to daughter cells AND serve as a blueprint for
protein synthesis in parent cell
22. RNA
23. long chain
24. RNA nucleotides
25. ribose sugar, phosphate group, nitrogenous bases
26. ribose
27. adenine, uracil, guanine, cytosine
28. transcription
29. uracil
30. cytosine
31. messenger, transfer and ribosomal RNA
32. brings message from DNA in nucleus to the ribosome
33. brings correct amino acid from cytoplasm to ribosome
34. along with protein, it makes up the ribosome
35. RNA polymerase
36. codon
37. anticodon
38. amino acid
39. translation
40. UAC
41. UAC
42. it is the work bench/ site of protein synthesis
43. 303
44. translation would not stop
45. nucleus
46. nucleus
47. ribosome in cytoplasm
48. semi-conservative replication
49. ribosome
50. AUG