front 1 Which of the following are classified as pyrimidines? | back 1 thymine and cytosine |
front 2 What type of bond is formed between the hydroxyl group of one nucleotide and the phosphate group of an adjacent nucleotide, forming the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA? | back 2 phosphodiester bond |
front 3 What types of bonds are formed between complementary DNA bases? | back 3 hydrogen bonds |
front 4 Based on the following replication bubble, which of these statements is true? | back 4 W and Y are leading strands, X and Z are lagging strands |
front 5 In E. coli, replication begins at which chromosome site? | back 5 oriC |
front 6 What is the DNA replication fork? | back 6 It is the site where the DNA helix opens to two single DNA strands. |
front 7 Okazaki fragments form on the lagging strand during DNA replication. | back 7 True |
front 8 DNA replication in eukaryotes | back 8 initiates at multiple origins |
front 9 DNA replication proceeds | back 9 semiconservatively |
front 10 DNA replication occurs by adding | back 10 dNTPs to the 3′ end of the daughter strand |
front 11 What are two distinguishing features of RNA? | back 11 RNA has a ribose sugar and uracil nitrogenous base. |
front 12 What is the role of a promoter region of a gene? | back 12 Recruit transcription factors that form the initiation complex. |
front 13 Which region(s) of a gene are not found within the mRNA transcript? | back 13 promoter and termination region |
front 14 ou want to design a drug that prevents transcription of eukaryotic mRNAs but does not affect transcription of other RNAs. What enzyme would you target? | back 14 RNA polymerase II |
front 15 Which of the following is part of a DNA molecule? | back 15 Promoter |
front 16 Which enzyme is required to initiate 5′ capping of eukaryotic mRNA transcripts by removing the terminal phosphate group? | back 16 guanylyl transferase |
front 17 Which of the following bacterial RNA polymerase subunits is found in the holoenzyme, but not the core enzyme? | back 17 σ (sigma) |
front 18 What is the general name for the components of the spliceosome, which removes introns from mRNAs? | back 18 small nuclear ribonucleoproteins |
front 19 What are catalytically active RNAs that can activate processes such as self-splicing? | back 19 ribozymes |
front 20 What is the purpose of alternative splicing in eukaryotic cells? | back 20 Produce multiple polypeptide sequences from a single primary transcript. |