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 DNA Quiz

Welcome to the QuizMoz DNA Quiz. QuizMoz offers one of the Internet's largest collection of quizzes for you to tease your brain and pit your wits against the experienced QuizMoz quiz masters. Go ahead and find out what you know about yourself and the world around you. Best of luck!!

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Coverage : Any of several acids, occurring mainly in cellular nuclei and involved in the transmission of hereditary traits and the formation of proteins, are more commonly known as DNA. How much do you know about DNA? The answers are in this DNA quiz.

1. In the term DNA the letter ‘D’ stands for Divergence?
a.True
b.False
 
2. In the term DNA what does the letter ‘A’ stand for?
a.Adenine
b.Amino
c.Acid
d.Alkali
 
3. What is the name given to the genetic information encoded by an
organism’s DNA?
a.Fungi
b.Chromosome
c.Genome
d.Molecule
 
4. DNA is thought to have originated roughly between what time frame?
a.20-30 billion years ago
b.3.5-4.6 billion years ago
c.300-350 millions years ago
d.550,000-650,000 years ago
 
5. Most human cells contain how many pairs of chromosomes?
a.423
b.223
c.123
d.23
 
6. What are enzymes?
a.Proteins that accelerate chemical reactions
b.Two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds
c.The sex-determining chromosomes in humans and mammals
d.The structural and functional unit of all living organisms
 
7. DNA is composed of four bases, which are adenine, thymine and what else?
a.Nucleotide
b.Cytosine
c.Guanine
d.Zygote
 
8. DNA profiling was developed in 1984 by which British geneticist?
a.Sir Alec Jeffreys
b.Sir Lawrence Bragg
c.Leonard Adleman
d.Erwin Chargaff
 
9. In which year was DNA profiling first used in a murder conviction in the UK?
a.1968
b.1978
c.1988
d.1998
 
10. DNA was recently used in establishing the familial relationships between descendants of Sally Hemings and who?
a.Thomas Jefferson
b.Theodore Roosevelt
c.Abraham Lincoln
d.George Washington
 
11. Which two Cambridge scholars built a DNA model in 1953 which was later donated to the National Science Museum?
a.Crick and Watson
b.Wilkins and Franklin
c.Pauling and Astbury
d.Krankee and Chegwin
 
12. DNA is often referred to as the ‘Molecule of Heredity’?
a.True
b.False
 
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