Quiz For the Biology Exam

This is in no way a complete revision of the course for Unit 4 Biology (VCE). However this skims a few of the more hard to grasp concepts by students.

Find out whether you have a sound knowledge for these few tricky sections of the syllabus and use to polish up those Biology skills! Good luck for the test and for your exam :)

Created by: Ash
  1. What is a gene?
  2. What is the first step of PCR?
  3. The final step of PCR is...?
  4. What is a leading strand?
  5. What is the purpose of a primer?
  6. What is an intron?
  7. Which molecule contains the anti-codon in translation?
  8. Which enzyme joins DNA fragments together? It forms strong covalent bonds between sections of the sugar phosphate backbone.
  9. What is the role of Reverse transcriptase?
  10. What is the name for random changes in the frequency of alleles form generation to generation; especially in small populations, can lead to the elimination of a particular allele by chance alone
  11. What is (also called migration) any movement of genes from one population to another
  12. How may patterns of speciation are there and what are they called?
  13. What are the names for; a) a fossil arising from the decay of tissue and leaving a cavity b) a fossil made when a cavity is filled by other material, forming a 3D model

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