Chapter 9 Study Guide

1. Which scientists discovered the structure of DNA?

2. What does DNA stand for?

3. Where in a cell is DNA found?

4. What is the shape of DNA?

5. What is DNA composed of?

6. Every nucleotide is made up of 3 parts. What are they?

a.
b.
c.

7. What is the only part of a nucleotide that changes from one nucleotide to another?

8. DNA contain 4 nitrogen bases. What are they?

a.
b.
c.
d.

9. Which bases pair with each other?

a. A binds with _________
b. C binds with __________

10. Write in the bases for the complementary strand of DNA.

A T T C C G A C T G A T A A C G C G A T T G G
11. The process of copying a strand of DNA is called?

12. Which enzyme unwinds DNA during DNA Replication?

13. Which enzyme adds new nucleotides during DNA Replication?

14. At which location on the DNA strand does DNA Replication occur?

15. Replicate this strand of DNA.

A T T C C G G A