GENETICS ACTUAL 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+

GENETICS ACTUAL 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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✔✔Silent - ✔✔A type of mutation where there is no change in the resulting polypeptide.

✔✔Inversion - ✔✔A type of mutation where the two strands of DNA switch positions, or
flip

✔✔Translocation - ✔✔Type of mutation where a section of DNA moves to another
location.

✔✔Restriction enzyme - ✔✔Used to cut DNA into fragments

✔✔Plasmid - ✔✔A DNA donut found in bacteria cells that can be transferred between
cells

✔✔Conjugation - ✔✔The process where bacteria cells transfer plasmids to each other

✔✔Electrophoresis - ✔✔A process where DNA fragments are separated according to
size using electrical charges

✔✔5-3 - ✔✔Direction that new DNA is built in (3-5 or 5-3)

✔✔purine - ✔✔Double ringed nitrogenous base

✔✔nucleotide - ✔✔DNA subunit

✔✔nucleic acid - ✔✔DNA is this type of molecule

✔✔poly-A - ✔✔Type of tail that protects mRNA

✔✔methyl guanosine - ✔✔Type of cap that protects mRNA (5' cap)

✔✔ribose - ✔✔Type of sugar in RNA

✔✔deoxyribose - ✔✔Type of sugar in DNA

✔✔phosphate - ✔✔DNA has a sugar and _____ backbone

✔✔hydrogen - ✔✔Type of bond between nitrogenous bases

✔✔covalent - ✔✔Type of bond between atoms in DNA backbone