Multiple Choice Quiz on Genetic code

This genetics quiz is designed to assess your basic knowledge in ‘Genetic code’. Questions come under ‘easy’ category. Choose the best answer from the four options given. When you've finished answering as many of the questions as you can, scroll down to the bottom of the page and check your answers by clicking 'Get score'. Percentage score will be displayed along with right answers.
genetic code
1. Genetic code consists of
2 letters
3 letters
4 letters
5 letters
2. The initiator AUG in prokaryotes codes for
Valine
Methionine
Phenyl alanine
Formyl methionine
3. Genetic code is not
overlapping
degenerate
universal
with commas
4. UAA is known as
Opal
Amber
Ochre
None of these
5. Amber is
AAA
GGG
UAG
UGA
6. Which one of the following is known as Opal
AUG
GUG
UAG
UGA
7. If methionine comes as an intermediate amino acid in protein synthesis, the codon which codes it is
AUG
GUG
UUU
AGG
8. Glycine is coded by
GGG
CCC
AAA
UAA
9. Which one of the following is not an mRNA codon
UUG
UCU
TAG
UUU
10. Wobble hypothesis was proposed by
Watson
Crick
Nirenberg
Holley
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