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BIO 123 CHAPTER 10 EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS| ACE YOUR
GRADES.
Will always have an equal percentage of A and G, and an equal
percentage of C and T: - correct answer -None of the above
Has and anticodon and carries and amino acid - correct answer -
tRNA
Involved in the process of translation - correct answer -More than
one of the above
Partially unzips/unwinds during the process of transcription -
correct answer -DNA
What organelle is directly responsible for protein synthesis? -
correct answer -Ribosome
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T/F: The cap and tail are not part of the message used to
construct a polypeptide - correct answer -True
T/F: The stop codons specify an amino acid - correct answer -
False, they do not
Translation converts the information stored in ___ into ___ -
correct answer -RNA; polypeptide
Mutation in a gene that altered the original codon to a stop codon
would__ - correct answer -Result in a shorter polypeptide chain
A___ is the protein coat of a virus - correct answer -Capsid
T/F: A retrovirus need reverse transcriptase to make viral DNA
from the host-cell RNA - correct answer -False, a retrovirus needs
reverse transcriptase to make viral DNA from viral RNA
A misfolded protein - correct answer -Prion
BIO 123 CHAPTER 10 EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS| ACE YOUR
GRADES.
Will always have an equal percentage of A and G, and an equal
percentage of C and T: - correct answer -None of the above
Has and anticodon and carries and amino acid - correct answer -
tRNA
Involved in the process of translation - correct answer -More than
one of the above
Partially unzips/unwinds during the process of transcription -
correct answer -DNA
What organelle is directly responsible for protein synthesis? -
correct answer -Ribosome
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T/F: The cap and tail are not part of the message used to
construct a polypeptide - correct answer -True
T/F: The stop codons specify an amino acid - correct answer -
False, they do not
Translation converts the information stored in ___ into ___ -
correct answer -RNA; polypeptide
Mutation in a gene that altered the original codon to a stop codon
would__ - correct answer -Result in a shorter polypeptide chain
A___ is the protein coat of a virus - correct answer -Capsid
T/F: A retrovirus need reverse transcriptase to make viral DNA
from the host-cell RNA - correct answer -False, a retrovirus needs
reverse transcriptase to make viral DNA from viral RNA
A misfolded protein - correct answer -Prion
