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Honors Biology
Chapter 10 Guided Reading Assignment
Name _________________________
1. What is molecular biology?
2. Review: What are monomers and polymers? How are they related?
3. Draw the detailed structure of a DNA nucleotide.
4. What makes up the “backbone” of DNA?
5. How is an RNA nucleotide different from a DNA nucleotide?
6. What are the four bases for DNA? For RNA?
7. What is the complementary sequence to GGCTAATTGCCCGTA?
8. What is DNA replication?
9. How does complementary base pairing make possible the replication of DNA?
10. Why is the model for DNA replication said to be “semiconservative?”
11. What is an origin of replication? What does it have to do with a replication fork?
12. What does it mean to say that DNA is anti-parallel?
13. What is the function of the enzymes: DNA polymerase & DNA ligase?
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14. Define the following terms:
a. Transcription
b. Translation
c. Triplet code
d. Codon
e. Genetic code
15. What are the functions of transcription and
translation?
16. What molecule acts as a bridge between DNA and
proteins?
17. Label the diagram 
18. A particular protein is 250 amino acids long. In the
gene for this protein, how many nucleotides are
necessary to code for this protein?
19. Translate the mRNA sequence GGUAAAUGC?
20. Label the diagram below using the following word bank:
RNA polymerase, RNA nucleotides, Template strand of
DNA, Newly made RNA:
21. What is the function of tRNA (include anticodon in your
answer)?
22. Which type of RNA are ribosomes? How does a ribosome
function in protein synthesis?
23. Label the diagram 
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