VCE Biology Unit 3 Area of Study 1: Nucleic acids, proteins & DNA manipulation

Past VCAA exam questions for VCE Biology Unit 3 Area of Study 1: Nucleic acids, proteins & DNA manipulation, sorted by difficulty and filterable by topic, year and question type.

192 past VCAA questions, 2017–2025.

Topics in this area of study

• Agricultural applications of gene technology
• Amino acids and polypeptide structure
• CRISPR-Cas9 function and genome editing
• DNA and RNA structure comparison
• Enzymes for DNA manipulation
• Gel electrophoresis and DNA profiling
• Gene structure: exons, introns, promoters
• Genetically modified and transgenic organisms
• Hierarchical protein structure levels
• Human insulin production case study
• Nucleotide composition of mRNA, rRNA, tRNA
• Polymerase chain reaction amplification
• Prokaryotic trp operon regulation
• Protein secretory pathway components
• Proteome diversity and enzyme function
• Recombinant plasmids and bacterial transformation
• Transcription and RNA processing
• Translation by ribosomes
• Universal triplet genetic code and degeneracy