DNA and the Genetic Code

Question 1

What does DNA stand for?

Answer 1

Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

Question 2

What does DNA do?

Answer 2

Determines which amino acids are linked together

Question 3

What discovered DNA?

Answer 3

Francis Crick and James Watson in 1953

Question 4

What is the structure of DNA

Answer 4

Double Helix - two chains are twisted together which are joined by bases

Question 5

What molecules do DNA have?

Answer 5

Two long chains of sugar and phosphate molecules

Question 6

What are the four bases and spell them?

Answer 6

Adenine
Cytosine
Guanine
Thymine

Question 7

What do bases do?

Answer 7

Forms a code which different amino acids produce proteins

Question 8

What bases go together?

Answer 8

Adenine and Thymine

Cytosine and Guanine

Question 9

Three bases code for…

Answer 9

One amino acid called the triplet code

Question 10

How does DNA code for the formation of proteins?

Answer 10

The order in which bases occur along a DNA strand
forms a ‘code’ which determines how different
amino acids are linked together to form different proteins.