Download Unit 8 Test Review Answers do not have to be in complete

Unit 8 Test Review
Answers do not have to be in complete sentences but must be complete.
1. What is transformation as it relates to Griffith’s experiment?
2. What were Avery’s findings?
3. What is a bacteriophage?
4. How did radioactive markers prove that DNA was the genetic material in Hershey and Chase’s
experiment?
5. What monomers make up nucleic acid polymers?
6. What 3 parts make up a nucleotide of DNA?
7. What is the backbone of DNA made of?
8. What are the four bases in DNA?
9. According to base pair rules, which bases pair together in DNA?
10. Who discovered the base pair rules?
11. What did Rosalind Franklin do that led to the discovery of the shape of DNA?
12. What did Watson and Crick do that led to the discovery of the shape of DNA?
13. What name is give to the shape of DNA?
14. How is DNA different in prokaryotes and eukaryotes?
15. What role do histones play in the structure of chromatin and chromosomes?
16. What are nucleosomes?
17. What is the process of copying DNA called?
18. Why must DNA be copied?
19. What is the role of helicase?
20. What is the role of DNA Polymerase?
21. What DNA bases are complementary to TAGGCATTGCCCAT?
22. How many proteins are made from each gene?
23. List the 3 differences between DNA and RNA.
24. What are the three types of RNA?
25. What is the function of mRNA?
26. What is the function of tRNA?
27. What is the function of rRNA?
28. What is the purpose of transcription?
29. What are the base pair rules in RNA?
30. What is the function of RNA Polymerase?
31. What are promoters?
32. What are introns?
33. What are exons?
34. What is a codon?
35. What is the purpose of translation?
36. What is the function of ribosomes?
37. What are anticodons?
38. What is a mutation?
39. What are point mutations?
40. What are frameshift mutations?
41. Why are frameshift mutations worse than point mutations?
42. What is polyploidy?
Do #1-3 “Analyzing Data”