POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION QUIZ

morphology of the bacterium

whether the bacterium is motile

the species to which the bacteria are most closely related

the type of energy metabolism the bacterium has

insufficient enzyme and time to synthesize mass quantity of DNA

reduction in substrate concentration

all of these

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

t RNA

r RNA

m DNA

c DNA

RNA

none of these

double stranded DNA

single stranded DNA

all of these

E. coli DNA polymerase

Taq polymerase

E. coli RNA polymerase

four steps

two steps

three steps

five steps

Hepatitis B virus

HIV-1 and HIV-2 viruses

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

All of these

none of these

preventing contamination by outside DNA

the amplification process

separating the different rRNA gene sequences in the mixture