DNA REPLICATION QUIZ

Proofreading activity to maintain the fidelity of DNA synthesis

occurs after the synthesis has been completed

occurs in prokaryotes but not eukaryotes

is a function of the 3'-5' exonuclease activity of the DNA polymerases

requires the presence of an enzyme separate from the DNA polymerases

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During which of the following process a new copy of a DNA molecule is precisely synthesized?

Trasformation

Transcription

Translation

Replication

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Which of the following statements on replication in E.coli is correct?

Occurs only when λ phase has infected E. coli

It occurs in bidirectional manner

Always uses T7 DNA polymerase when infected by T7 phage

It occurs in a unidirectional manner

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Both strands of DNA serve as templates concurrently in

none of these

excision repair

replication

mismatch repair

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The enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of DNA is called

DNA ligase

DNA polymerase

DNA gyrase

helicase

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DNA gyrase is inhibited by

cephalosporin

both (a) and (b)

nalidixic acid

tetracycline

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Which of the following possesses both 5'-3' and 3'-5' exonuclease activity?

Kornberg enzyme

Taq DNA polymerase

DNA polymerase III

None of these

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During DNA replication in prokaryotes, synthesis begins on the circular chromosome

always at the same place

at the promoter

randomly on the chromosome

at any stretch of DNA that is high in AT pairs

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In E.coli, which enzyme synthesizes the RNA primer for Okazaki fragments?

DnaG

all of these

DnaA

DnaC

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Which of the following enzymes unwind short stretches of DNA helix immediately ahead of a replication fork?

DNA polymerases

Helicases

Topoisomerases

Single-stranded binding proteins

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