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The document provides practice questions and knowledge checks for a biology unit on DNA and RNA structure. It includes multiple choice and short answer questions testing understanding of the double helix structure of DNA, nucleotides, base pairing, and differences between DNA and RNA. It also discusses how Watson and Crick's model making helped elucidate the DNA structure.

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2.6 Practice Questions

The document provides practice questions and knowledge checks for a biology unit on DNA and RNA structure. It includes multiple choice and short answer questions testing understanding of the double helix structure of DNA, nucleotides, base pairing, and differences between DNA and RNA. It also discusses how Watson and Crick's model making helped elucidate the DNA structure.

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IBDP Biology unit 2.

6 practice questions and knowledge check

Name:……………………………………………………

Learning Mastered

Applications and skills:

Application: Crick and Watson’s elucidation of the structure of DNA


using model making.

• Skill: Drawing simple diagrams of the structure of single


nucleotides of DNA and RNA, using circles, pentagons and
rectangles to represent phosphates, pentoses and bases.

Understandings:

 The nucleic acids DNA and RNA are polymers of


nucleotides.

• DNA differs from RNA in the number of strands present, the base
composition and the type of pentose.

• DNA is a double helix made of two antiparallel strands of


nucleotides linked by hydrogen bonding between complementary
base pairs.

Guidance:

In diagrams of DNA structure, the helical shape does not need to be


shown, but the two strands should be shown antiparallel. Adenine
should be shown paired with thymine and guanine with cytosine, but
the relative lengths of the purine and pyrimidine bases do not need to
be recalled, nor the numbers of hydrogen bonds between the base
pairs.

Theory of knowledge:

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The story of the elucidation of the structure of DNA illustrates that
cooperation and collaboration among scientists exists alongside
competition between research groups. To what extent is research in
secret ‘anti-scientific’? What is the relationship between shared and
personal knowledge in the natural sciences?

Targets for unit 2.6 Achieved?

1. [1 mark]
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Nucleic acids are polymers of nucleotides. What parts of nucleotides are joined together in both DNA
and RNA to make these polymers?

A. Large nitrogenous bases with small nitrogenous bases

B. Nitrogenous bases with hexose sugars

C. Nitrogenous bases with phosphates

D. Pentose sugars with phosphates

2. [1 mark]

For which discovery about DNA do Watson and Crick receive credit?

A. DNA is the molecule that genes are made of.

B. The amount of adenine equals the amount of thymine in an organism.

C. Phosphate–pentose bonding along the nucleotide backbone is covalent.

D. The shape of DNA is a double helix.

3. [1 mark]

What is a similarity between DNA and RNA?

A. Both are polymers of nucleotides.


B. Both are composed of antiparallel strands.
C. Both contain adenine, cytosine and thymine.
D. Both contain ribose sugar

5. [1 mark]

The diagram shows a dinucleotide.

Which type of bond is identified by the arrow?

A. Phosphate
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B. Hydrogen

C. Covalent

D. Peptide

6. [1 mark]

The image shows a DNA nucleotide.

Which correctly identifies the parts labelled I and II?

7. [1 mark]

Which sequence shows increasing relative size?

8. [2 marks]

State two structural features that differ between RNA and DNA.
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9a. [2 marks]

Label the parts of the DNA diagram indicated by I, II, III and IV.

9b. [2 marks]

Explain how model making helped Watson and Crick to establish the structure of DNA.

10. [5 marks]

Draw a labelled diagram of a section of DNA showing four nucleotide

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