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DNA Replication Worksheet

The document is a worksheet about DNA replication that contains questions, true/false statements, and incomplete statements to test understanding of the key concepts and steps of DNA replication. It asks about why DNA replicates, whether replication is conservative or semi-conservative, the enzymes involved, when and where replication occurs in the cell cycle, and to arrange steps and complete statements about DNA replication.

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DNA Replication Worksheet

The document is a worksheet about DNA replication that contains questions, true/false statements, and incomplete statements to test understanding of the key concepts and steps of DNA replication. It asks about why DNA replicates, whether replication is conservative or semi-conservative, the enzymes involved, when and where replication occurs in the cell cycle, and to arrange steps and complete statements about DNA replication.

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DNA Replication Worksheet

DIRECTIONS. Answer the following questions about DNA replication in complete sentences.
1. Why does DNA replicate?

2. Is DNA replication describe as conservative or semi-conservative? Why?

3. What 2 enzymes are used during DNA replication? Describe what each does
during replication.

4. When does DNA replication occur in a cell?

5. Where does DNA replication occur in a cell?

True/False - If the statement is false, correct the statement.

T or F - Cytosine, guanine, thymine and adenine are referred to as

phosphates. T or F - DNA is in the shape of a helix.

T or F - A nucleotide is made up of a su0ar, phosohate and two nitroaen

bases. T or F - Replication is performed prior to cell division.

T or F — Adenine always pairs with guanine.

T or F — Complementary base pairing matches up complementary sugars.

T or F - The sides of the DNA molecule are made up of repeating nitrogen bases and

suoars. T or F — The letters that make up the DNA molecule code for aenes.

T or F — Replication results in two strands of DNA, each of which has half of the original

strand. T or F — Covalent bonds hold nitrogen bases together, forming the rings of the

DNA ladder.

Sentence Arrange — Put the steps of DNA replication in order by writing a number in the space
before each statement.
Two new molecules of DNA are created.
DNA polymerase attach the free-floating nucleotides to the exposed nitrogen bases.
Helicase begins to break the hydrogen bonds between nitrogen bases.
Cell starts into the mitosis phase of the cell cycle.
Free floating nucleotides pair up with exposed nitrogen bases.

Complete the statement


, guanine, cytosine, and thymine are the four
nitrogen bases. In DNA, always forms hydrogen bonds with guanine.
The sequence of carries the genetic information of an organism
The process of produces a new copy of an organism's genetic
information. The double coiled shape of DNA is called a
DNA Replication
1. Number the steps of DNA replication in the correct order (1, 2, 3):
Daughter strands are formed using complementary base pairing.
DNA unwinds
The DNA of the daughter strands winds with together with its parent strand.
2. Why is DNA replication called “semi-conservative"?
3. What enzyme unwinds or unzips the parent strand?
4. What enzyme connects the new bases to the old bases in the DNA template?

5. What enzyme connects the new nucleotides together and proofreads them?

6. Show the complimentary base pairing that would occur in the replication of the short DNA
molecule below. Use two different colored pencils (or different pens, markers, etc.) to show which
strands are the original and which are newly synthesized.

ri mc rigina
DNA 5tra«dNew DNA New DNADNA Strand
Strand 1Strand 2 l (copy fromStrand ef†) StrO d2 (copy from left)

T-A
T-A

A-
C-6

c-

s—c

T-A

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