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1. Which of the following is an organic compound found in both plant and animal cells?
A. Cellulose
B. Carbonate
C. Water
D. Pyruvate
H C O H H C H
H C O
C C
O H H H
O H O H N
C C
H H
H O H
C. H 2C O H D . O
H O H 2C H
H C O H C C
H H
H 2C O H H O H
C C
O H O H
A. Ribose
B. Glycogen
C. Amylase
D. Glycerol
B. As enzymes
C. As energy storage
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5. Which of the following terms correctly describe the molecule below?
H
H O H
C
C O
H H
H
C C
O H H
O H O H
C C
H O H
I. Monosaccharide
II. Ribose
III. Carbohydrate
A. I only
D. I, II and III
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6. What is the maximum number of fatty acids that can be condensed with glycerol?
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four
A . H H H B . H H H
H C C C H H C C C H
O H O H O H H H O H
C . H H D . H H
H C C H H C C H
O H O H H O H
H H H SH
H O H
C. H D . H
H O H O
N C C N C C
H H H O H
O H H
A. Hormones
B. Energy storage
C. Transport
D. Structure
10. The diagram below shows a channel protein in a membrane. Which parts of the surface of the
protein would be composed of polar amino acids.
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A. I and II only
D. I and IV only
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11. Which diagram correctly illustrates a dipeptide?
A . H H O H H O B. H H O H H O
N C C N C C N C C N C C
H H H O H H O H
H H
C. H H H H H O D . H H O H H O
N C C N C C N C C N C C
H H H O H H H H O H
12. Which of the following reactions occurs when a dipeptide is formed from amino acids?
A. Hydrolysis
B. Denaturation
C. Condensation
D. Oxidation
14. What is a difference between the sense and antisense strands of DNA?
A. Nucleotides are linked to the sense strand by hydrogen bonding during transcription, but
not to the antisense strand.
B. The sense strand has the same base sequence as tRNA, but the antisense strand does not.
C. Nucleotides are linked to the antisense strand by hydrogen bonding during transcription,
but not to the sense strand.
D. The antisense strand has the same base sequence as mRNA but the sense strand does not.
D. A polysaccharide
17. In an electron micrograph, a DNA molecule appears 1 mm wide. The magnification of the
micrograph is 500 000. What is the width of the DNA molecule?
A. 0.5 nm
B. 2 nm
C. 0.5 m
D. 2 m
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18. To which parts of the deoxyribose molecule do phosphates bind in DNA?
V CH 2O H
I
O H
IV
H H H O H
II
O H H
III
A. I and V
B. III and IV
C. II and III
D. III and V
19. The diagram below represents a DNA nucleotide. What could the part labelled X represent?
A. Ribose
B. Uracil
C. Guanine
D. Phosphate
A. Deoxyribose, a phosphate and one of the bases: adenine, cytosine, guanine or thymine
B. Ribose, a phosphate and one of the bases: adenine, cytosine, guanine or uracil
C. Deoxyribose, a nitrate and one of the bases: adenine, cytosine, guanine or thymine
D. Ribose, a nitrate and one of the bases: adenine, cytosine, guanine or thymine
A. I and II only
D. I, II and III
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22. The diagram shows part of a molecule produced by replication of DNA. What is the
significance of the shaded and the unshaded regions?
A. The shaded parts are DNA and the unshaded parts are mRNA.
B. The shaded parts contain adenine and thymine and the unshaded parts contain guanine
and cytosine.
D. One of the parts has been newly synthesized and the other was part of a pre-existing DNA
molecule.
23. The diagram below shows the bases on a short section of DNA during replication. Identify the
sequence of bases on the new complementary strand labelled I in the diagram.
A. CTAG
B. CUAG
C. TCGA
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D. AGCT
24. What is responsible for the conservation of the base sequence during DNA replication?
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25. During the process of replication, which bond(s) in the diagram of DNA below is/are
broken?
3 6
4
1
7
A. 3
B. 4, 5
C. 1, 2, 6, 7
D. 1, 7, 4, 5
26. A biochemist isolated and purified molecules needed for DNA replication. When some DNA
was added replication occurred, but the DNA molecules formed were defective. Each consisted
of a normal DNA strand paired with segments of DNA a few hundred nucleotides long. Which
of the following had been left out of the mixture?
A. DNA ligase
B. Helicase
C. Nucleotides
D. DNA polymerase
1. Describe the use of carbohydrates and lipids for energy storage in animals.
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(Total 5 marks)
4. Draw a diagram showing the molecular structure of a section of the DNA molecule.
(Total 5 marks)
5. Living organisms use DNA as their genetic material. Explain how DNA is replicated within the
cells of living organisms.
(Total 8 marks)
6. The structure of the DNA double helix was described by Watson and Crick in 1953. Explain the
structure of the DNA double helix, including its subunits and the way in which they are bonded
together.
(Total 8 marks)
7. State a role for each of four different named enzymes in DNA replication.
(Total 6 marks)
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