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1. What is the purpose of DNA? 2. Watson & Crick determined that the shape of DN

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Question

1. What is the purpose of DNA? 2. Watson & Crick determined that the shape of DNA is a what? 3. List the four bases of DNA. 4. If the template DNA strand has the bases GCATTCGA what would the complimentary strand of the DNA molecule be? 5. DNA contains the sugar , while RNA contains the sugar . 6. During DNA replication, two DNA strands are produced. Each new DNA molecule has one_________ strand and one __________strand. 7. The bases in DNA and RNA are the same except that RNA has and does not have . 8. When making a protein, DNA is convened into , which is then converted into a 9. If a hypothetical protein is 450 amino acid long, how many DNA bases is in the coding sequence? 10. DNA sequence: T A C C A G T A G G T T A G C C A A A T T mRNA sequence: Amino acid sequence:

Explanation / Answer

mRNA sequence is -------AUG GUC AUC CAA UCG GUU UAA

AMINO ACID sequence