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1) How many chromosomes does a person have?
     a) 21
     b) 22
     c) 23
     d) 24

2) How many bases are there in the human genome?
     a) 30,000
     b) 3 billion
     c) 5 million
     d) 20,000

3)What kind of bond is present between bases?
     a) Covalent bond
     b) Ionic bond
     c) Hydrogen bond
     d) macromolecular bond

4) How many chemicals forms bonds to create DNA?
     a) 4
     b) 6
     c) 10
     d) 12

5) What are the only 2 combinations of these letters?
     a) A-C, T-G
     b) A-G, C-T
     c) A-A, C-G-T
     d) T-A, C-G

6) A human genome has the same number of bases as what?
     a) Corn
     b) Fruit fly
     c) Cow
     d) Pig

7) The Human Genome Project is slated to finish by when?
     a) 2012
     b) 2004
     c) 2003
     d) 2005

8) The human genome is said to have ______ genes.
     a) 35,000
     b) 3.5 billion
     c) 5 million
     d) 25,000

9) The first cloned cow was from where?
     a) Bangladesh, India
     b) New Zealand
     c) New Jersey, USA
     d) London, England

10) Where was the first cloned pig produced?
     a) Australia
     b) France
     c) Sweden
     d) Germany

11) When was E.Coli discovered?
     a) 1965
     b) 1630
     c) 1863
     d) 1855

12)Three generations of of mice from nuclei of adult ovarian cumulus cells were born at the University of ______.
     a) Hawaii
     b) Chicago
     c) Michigan
     d) Colorado

13)How accurate will the completed human gene sequence be?
     a) 90.55%
     b) 50.00%
     c) 99.47%
     d) 99.99%

14)There will only be ___ error per ________ bases
     a) 10 / 910
     b) 1 / 10000
     c) 10 / 10000
     d) 1 / 100

15)Who first described the cell?
     a) Janssen
     b) Miescher
     c) Hooke
     d) Laval

16)Who first published a manuscript describing double-helix DNA?
     a) Watson and Crick
     b) Pauling and Watson
     c) Kornberg and McClintock
     d) Harris and Watkins

17)What does DNA stand for?
     a) Dynamic Nucleus Action
     b) Deoxyribonucleic Acid
     c) Derived Neuron Archives
     d) Distant Neutron Activator

18)The end of a piece of DNA is called the ____ end
     a) 3'
     b) 5'
     c) 3.5'
     d) 5.3'

19)The E.coli are shaken in a ______.
     a) soup
     b) broth
     c) softdrink
     d) alcohol

20)In what year was the human growth hormone first synthesised?
     a) 1987
     b) 1840
     c) 1979
     d) 1999

21)How many forms of RNA participate in the synthesis of proteins?
     a) 1
     b) 5
     c) 3
     d) 10

22)The microchondrial genome has how many base pairs?
     a) 16, 234
     b) 15, 696
     c) 16, 565
     d) 16, 569

23)Nucleotides are joined by ______ to give polynucleotides.
     a) phosphodiester bonds
     b) hydrogen bonds
     c) carbon bonds
     d) ionic bonds

24)What does "hereditary" mean?
     a) passed down from generations
     b) random contraction
     c) genetic mutation
     d) a form of the flu

25)Each ___________________ consists of sugar 2'-deoxyribose linked to a phosphate group and 1 base.
     a) deoxyribonucleotide
     b) ribonucleotide
     c) amino acid
     d) messenger RNA

26)What are the names of the 4 bases?
     a) Anothime, Thynine, Cytanine, Guaosine
     b) Andrew, Tehodore, Carolyn, Germany
     c) Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine
     d) They don't have names, just letters.

27)The shortest chromosome is ___ Mb(megabase-pairs) long and the longest ___ Mb.
     a) 100/300
     b) 25/250
     c) 55/210
     d) 55/250

28)tRNA stands for....?
     a) Transit RNA
     b) Transport RNA
     c) Transfer RNA
     d) Trip RNA

29)What does RNA stand for?
     a) roundneck acid
     b) ribonucleic acid
     c) refference nuclear acid
     d) ripoff nasty atmosphere

30)How many ways are there to map genes via genetic landmarks?
     a) 3
     b) 4
     c) 2
     d) 1

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