Name___________________________________ Biotechnology 1010 Practice Exam 1 VOCABULARY. Dene each term in the space provided.

1) enzyme 2) dependent variable 3) independent variable 4) base pair 5) biotechnology 6) recombinant DNA technology 7) mitochondria 8) polarity 9) transformation 10) antiparallel 11) semiconservative replication 12) transcription factors 13) template strand 14) operon 15) frameshift 16) single-stranded binding protein 17) single nucleotide polymorphism 18) nucleotide 19) DNA polymerase 20) Transcription 21) translation 22) codon 1

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 23) Which area of biotechnology primarily involves using living organisms to process, degrade, and clean up environmental pollution? A) Agricultural biotechnology B) Bioinformatics C) Marine biotechnology D) Genomics E) Bioremediation 24) ________ involves farm-raising nsh, shellsh, algae, and other aquatic organisms. A) Pharmacogenomics B) Biopharming C) Transgenic technology D) Aquaculture E) Bioremediation 25) Studying the entire complement of DNA in an organism's cells is known as: A) Nanotechnology B) Genomics C) Recombinant DNA technology D) Bioinformatics E) Bioremediation 26) Subtle differences in DNA sequences that vary from person to person are called: A) Pharmacogenomics B) Genomics C) Single-nucleotide polymorphisms D) Chromosomes E) DNA microarrays 27) The complementary base that hydrogen bonds with thymine in a DNA double helix is: A) Adenine B) Thymine C) Cytosine D) Uracil E) Guanine 28) Which of the following is a structural feature of DNA but not RNA? A) Contains phosphate groups B) Contains the nitrogenous base uracil C) Contains the nitrogenous base adenine D) Single stranded E) Contains deoxyribose sugars 29) Which of the following is the typical start codon in most mRNA molecules? A) AAA B) CAG C) AUG D) GAA 23)

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30) ________ bind to mRNA and tRNA during translation and allow for polypeptides to be synthesized. A) Chloroplasts B) Ribosomes C) RNA polymerases D) Chromosomes E) Nuclei 31) Which type of base pair substitution mutation has no effect on the amino acid sequence of a protein? A) Nonsense mutation B) Frameshift mutation C) Missense mutation D) Silent mutation E) None of these choices 32) Which type of point mutation creates a stop codon in a gene? A) Frameshift B) Nonsense C) Silent D) Missense E) None of these choices 33) In a nucleotide of DNA, which carbon of the deoxyribose sugar binds to the base? A) 1! B) 2! C) 3! D) 4! 34) Synthesis of RNA from a DNA template is called: A) Translation B) Reverse transcription C) Transformation D) Transcription E) None of these choices 35) What is the correct complement of the following DNA strand? 5' -ATGCGTATTAGC-3' A) 5'-TACGCATAATCG-3' B) 5'-CGATTATGCGTA-3' C) 3'-TACGCATAATCG-5' D) 3'-ATGCGTATTAGC-5' 36) What is the amino acid sequence for the DNA sequence below? 5'-ATGCGTTTTGCATGGTGA-3' A) MRFAW B) MAIKS C) STPED

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37) What is the correct RNA sequence that would be formed from the following DNA sequence? 5'-ATGCCATATGC-3' A) 5'-ATGCCATATGC-3' B) 5'-AUGCCAUAUGC-3' C) 3'-TACGGTATACG-5' D) 3'-UACGGTATACG-5'

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question. 38) What are three similarities and three differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells? 38)

39) Correctly label the parts of the cell below.

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