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DNA "IS TO": A QUIZ Charlotte Pence
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1. DNA : Living Organism ::
2. Nucleobases: Instructions ::
3. ATCG : DNA ::
4. Ribosome : mRNA ::
5. Proteins : Body ::
6. DNA: RNA ::
7. Metaphor : Truth ::
8. DNA : Story ::
* Answer key: 1. B.; 2. A. The arrangement of the letters or bases, not the bases or letters themselves, is what makes them significant and become something else; 3. B. ATCG are the bases (or building blocks) to DNA. They stand for adenine (A), cytosine (C), thymine (T), and guanine (G); 4. C. The job of the ribosome is to read the mRNA and assemble it into a protein; 5. A. Proteins act as the basic building blocks to the body; 6. B. DNA serves more like a record, but RNA represents a living representation of the record; 7. C. 8. D.
__ This poem is part of her series on non-verbal ways we preserve the past—such as through DNA. |