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What gives different organisms different characteristics?
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Form 4 Biology
Unit 4: The Genetic Material and Protein Synthesis questions and answers
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The Genetic Material and Protein Synthesis: sample questions with answers
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How many histone protein molecules bind together to form one bead?
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What kind of bond links nucleotides together in a nucleic acid?
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Through what does DNA regulate all the vital activities of cells?
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Which two processes make up the mitotic phase (M)?
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What are the causes of mutations called?
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What is the process of making mRNA from DNA called?
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Where does transcription take place in prokaryotic cells?
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What unit 4 covers
Questions follow the book: Biology, Form Four, Student Book.
Lesson 1: The Discovery of the Genetic Material (DNA)
- Chapter 4 introduction
- The discovery of the genetic material (DNA)
Lesson 2: The Structure of the Chromosome
- The structure of the chromosome
Lesson 3: The Nucleic Acids
- The nucleic acids
- Nucleotides
- Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
- Questions on the structure of DNA
- Chapter 4 questions
Lesson 4: The Importance of Nucleic Acids
- The importance of nucleic acids
- Chapter 4 questions
Lesson 5: The DNA Replication
- The cell cycle
- The mechanism of DNA replication
- The importance of DNA replication
- Chapter 4 questions
Lesson 6: Mutations
- Mutations
- Types of mutations
Lesson 7: Protein Synthesis (Transcription and Translation)
- Flow of genetic information
- Types of RNA and their functions
Lesson 8: Stages of Protein Synthesis
- Transcription
- RNA processing
- The genetic code
- The codons of the mRNA
- Translation
- The structure of the ribosome
- Translation: initiation
- Translation: elongation
- Translation: termination
- Post translational modifications
- Chapter 4 questions
Other units of Form 4 Biology
- unit 1The Nervous System and Sense Organs
- unit 2The Endocrine System
- unit 3The Skeletal, Muscular and Integumentary Systems
- unit 5Genetics
- unit 6Biotechnology
- unit 7Biodiversity and environmental problems
