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Quiz - Lipids and Nucleic Acids
1.
Fats are esters of what two components?
Fatty acids and glycerol
2.
What is the relationship between saturated and unsaturated fats in regard to single and
double bonds?
Saturated – single
3.
unsaturated - double
Most plant lipids are saturated or unsaturated?
unsaturated
4.
Fats and oils are what type of lipid?
triglycerides
5.
What does the initials DNA stand for?
Deoxyribose nucleic acid
6.
What is “replication”?
Making new copies of DNA
7.
What is “transcription”?
DNA to RNA
8.
What is a codon?
Three nucleic acid sequence that represents a particular amino acid
9.
What is an anticodon and what carries the anticoden?
Complimentary to the codon and is one the t-RNA
10.
How is protein synthesis done in the cell? (use drawings and words)
See notes and book (the reference is NOT the answer I want on the test !!!)
11.
Give an example of genetic testing.
Paternal testing, DNA fingerprinting
12.
Give an example of a product from recombinant DNA.
Insulin, human growth hormone
13.
Give an example of how “gene therapy” would be useful.
Correct mutations