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DNA questions and drawings (do on the back of the paper):

I. DNA activity: DNA replication

• 1. What is DNA replication? _____________________
• 2. What is protein synthesis? _________________________
• 3. Nucleic acids were discovered in _________.
• 4. The model of DNA was developed by
• ___________________,____________________,____________________.
• 5. DNA is composed of
• ______________,________________,_________________,_______________
• 6. List the pairings of the nucleotide bases: ________with_________,
• ________with_________
• 7. Do the workshop by matching pairs. Draw what you did. Color code the base pairs.

II. DNA activity: Protein Synthesis

• 1. What is DNA's main purpose? __________________
• 2. Proteins can be ____________________ which have special jobs.
• 3. Genes control the ___________________ of the entire organism.
• 4. The purpose of protein synthesis is to create a _____________________ made of a chain of __________ __________.
• 5. Hair contains a protein called _____________.
• 6. Draw the protein you synthesized with the codons, anticodons and amino acids. Color code the base pairs.