What is the name given to the points at which a DNA helix is unwound and new strands develop? Leading strands Replication origins Replication forks Okazaki fragments TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
What is the main damaging effect of UV radiation on DNA? Dehydration Formation of thymine dimers Depurination Single strand break TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Klenow fragment without free nucleotides exhibits nickase activity endonuclease activity exonuclease activity no activity TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
The rapid appearance of HIV-1 strains that are resistant to AIDS drugs is due in part to which of the following property of its reverse transcriptase? AZT (zidovudine) is too expensive to be taken in effective doses It lacks a proofreading exonuclease The RNase H domain of p66 causes error prone synthesis It has low affinity for the correct dNTP's TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
The role of primase is to dismantle RNA primer cleave and unwinds short sections of DNA ahead of the replication fork proofread base pairing synthesize an RNA primer to begin the elongation process TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Which of these drugs bind to DNA and cuts it, producing hydroxyl radicals? Erythromycin Tunicamycin All of these Bleomycin TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
For the DNA replication in eukaryotes, the cell cycle consists of G2 and M phases G1,S, G2 and M phases G1, G2 and M phases S, G2 and M phases TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Taylor, Woods and Hughes labeled Vicia DNA by allowing new DNA synthesis in the presence of radioactive thymine. After DNA replication (S phase of the cell cycle), it was observed that neither chromatid was labeled both chromatids of a chromosome were labeled only one chromatid of a chromosome was labeled both (a) and (b) TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
In a typical electrophoresis experiment, larger fragments of DNA move more quickly, so they appear nearer the bottom of a gel photograph slowly, so they appear nearer the bottom of a gel photograph slowly, so they appear nearer the top of a gel photograph quickly, so they appear nearer the top of a gel photograph TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Which of the following species lack a 'classical' histone H1? Saccharomyces cerevisiae Xenopus laevis Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Arabidopsis thaliana TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?