POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION QUIZ

two steps

four steps

three steps

five steps

single stranded DNA

none of these

double stranded DNA

RNA

r RNA

c DNA

m DNA

t RNA

the species to which the bacteria are most closely related

morphology of the bacterium

the type of energy metabolism the bacterium has

whether the bacterium is motile

HIV-1 and HIV-2 viruses

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Hepatitis B virus

All of these

preventing contamination by outside DNA

separating the different rRNA gene sequences in the mixture

none of these

the amplification process

reduction in substrate concentration

insufficient enzyme and time to synthesize mass quantity of DNA

all of these

build up of PCR product which competes with primers for hybrid formation

all of these

E. coli DNA polymerase

E. coli RNA polymerase

Taq polymerase