Ch. 15 DNA and The Gene Discovery Quiz

<p>Acts as the starting point for the new DNA strand</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>ATP has deoxyribose and dATP has ribose</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deoxyribose sugar</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It loses two phosphate groups and forms a pyrophosphate molecule</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>DNA polymerases can add nucleotides only to the free 3' end of a growing strand</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The leading strand is synthesized continuously, while the lagging strand is synthesized as a series of segments called Okazaki fragments</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It joins the Okazaki fragments of the lagging strand together</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The lagging strand is synthesized continuously</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They protect the ends of linear chromosomes from being degraded during replication</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Proteins</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Proteins have a larger number of possible building blocks compared to DNA</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>DNA can self-replicate, while proteins cannot</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Proteins and nucleic acids</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>DNA replication is a semiconservative process, where each new DNA molecule contains one original and one new strand</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Telomeres ensure the complete replication of linear DNA molecules</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The virus's DNA, not its proteins, enters the E. coli cell during infection.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>C, H, O, N, P</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>C, H, O, N, S</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The virus injects its DNA into the cell, which then directs the production of new virus particles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They used radioactive $^{32}$P to label the virus's DNA, and radioactive $^{35}$S to label its proteins.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Only the radioactive DNA, and not the radioactive proteins, was found inside the infected E. coli cells.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The new DNA duplex consists of one old strand (parental) and one new strand (daughter).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The complementary base-pairing between adenine and thymine, and guanine and cytosine</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The parent DNA molecule unwinds, and two new daughter strands are synthesized based on the template strands.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The semiconservative model suggests that the new DNA duplex contains one old strand and one new strand, while the conservative model suggests it contains two new strands.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The presence of a single sugar-phosphate backbone</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Base-pairing is used to determine the order of nucleotides in the new DNA strands.</p> Signup and view all the answers