____ are the units of heredity.
| 1. | Cells | 2. | Genes |
| 3. | Chromosomes | 4. | Alleles |
Which of the following was not a goal of the HGP?
| 1. | To identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA. |
| 2. | To determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA. |
| 3. | To address the ethical, legal, and social issues that may arise from the project. |
| 4. | To clone a human being. |
An octamer of 4 histones complexed with DNA forms
| 1. | Endosome | 2. | Nucleosome |
| 3. | Mesosome | 4. | Centromere |
In the double helix model of DNA, each base pair is how far from the next base pair?
| 1. | 0.034 nm | 2. | 0.34 nm |
| 3. | 3.4 nm | 4. | 34 nm |
A mutation that adds or deletes a base pair from DNA is
| 1. | a frameshift mutation |
| 2. | a nonsense mutation |
| 3. | a missense mutation |
| 4. | an aneuploid condition |
In nucleic acids the 5’ carbon of one sugar is held to the 3’ carbon of the adjacent sugar by
| 1. | a hydrogen bond |
| 2. | a phosphodiester bridge |
| 3. | an amide bond |
| 4. | a phosphoanhydride bond |
The replication of DNA is
| 1. | constitutive and continuous |
| 2. | conservative and semi discontinuous |
| 3. | semi-constitutive and continuous |
| 4. | semi-conservative and semi discontinuous |
The bases of RNA are the same as those of DNA with the exception that RNA contains
| 1. | cysteine instead of cytosine. |
| 2. | uracil instead of thymine. |
| 3. | cytosine instead of guanine. |
| 4. | uracil instead of adenine. |
In prokaryotes, the predominant site for control of gene
expression is the
| 1. | transcription initiation |
| 2. | processing level |
| 3. | transport of mRNA |
| 4. | translational level |
In Hershey and Chase experiment, the DNA of the phage was labelled with
| 1. | 35S | 2. | 32P |
| 3. | 18O | 4. | 14C |