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Biology quiz for grade 9: Molecules of life: DNA and proteins

This quiz helps revise “Molecules of life: DNA and proteins” in Biology for grade 9. It has 25 questions in five categories: DNA structure, Copying DNA, DNA to RNA, RNA to protein, Protein shape. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 14–15
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Molecules of life: DNA and proteins

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

DNA structure

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What shape does DNA have when its two strands wind around each other?

  2. 200

    Which nitrogenous base in DNA pairs with cytosine?

  3. 300

    Which sugar is…

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  4. 400

    What weak bonds hold…

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  5. 500

    How are DNA strands…

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Copying DNA

  1. 100

    What is the process of making a copy of DNA called?

  2. 200

    What copying model gives each new DNA molecule one old strand and one newly made strand?

  3. 300

    Which enzyme, pictured, separates…

    In the game
  4. 400

    What is the new…

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  5. 500

    Which enzyme joins short…

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DNA to RNA

  1. 100

    What process makes RNA using information from one DNA strand?

  2. 200

    Which nitrogenous base occurs in RNA instead of thymine?

  3. 300

    Which type of RNA…

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  4. 400

    Which enzyme, pictured, synthesizes…

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  5. 500

    A DNA template strand…

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RNA to protein

  1. 100

    What process uses information in an RNA copy of a gene to determine the sequence of a protein chain?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which cell structure, pictured, reads an RNA copy of a gene and assembles a protein chain?

  3. 300

    Which RNA type carries…

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  4. 400

    What is a three-nucleotide…

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  5. 500

    How many of the…

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Protein shape

  1. 100

    What is a chain formed when many amino acids are linked together?

  2. 200

    What covalent bond links neighboring amino acid residues in a protein chain?

  3. 300

    Which level of protein…

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  4. 400

    What process makes a…

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  5. 500

    Which level of structure…

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