GENETICS ACTUAL 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+

GENETICS ACTUAL 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔plasmid - ✔✔Bacteria have these; can code for antibiotic resistance

✔✔pyrimidine - ✔✔Single ringed nitrogenous base

✔✔lagging - ✔✔Strand that is made slower in DNA replicaton

✔✔PCR - ✔✔DNA amplification; force DNA to replicate

✔✔RFLP - ✔✔Can be used to sequence DNA, using a nylon membrane

✔✔negative - ✔✔DNA's charge

✔✔biotechnology - ✔✔Using living things to make a useful product

✔✔prokaryotic - ✔✔Type of cell where transcription and translation can happen
simultaneously

✔✔mutation - ✔✔Change in DNA sequence; can be from radiation, etc.

✔✔ codon - ✔✔Group of three nitrogenous bases - code for an amino acid

✔✔anti-codon - ✔✔Group of 3 bases found on tRNA

✔✔tRNA - ✔✔Transfers amino acids

✔✔rRNA - ✔✔Makes up ribosomes

✔✔mRNA - ✔✔Single stranded version of a gene; recipe for a protein

✔✔ribosome - ✔✔Makes polypeptides

✔✔amino acid - ✔✔Monomer of a polypeptide

✔✔DNA polymerase III - ✔✔Adds new DNA nucleotides to a replicating DNA molecule

✔✔Helicase - ✔✔Unizips DNA

✔✔telomere - ✔✔Protects the ends of the chromosomes, when they degrade, the cell
dies.