DNA Replication — Steps & Diagram
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Problems 33
- What does DNA polymerase do during DNA replication?
- DNA replication is a woah‾\underline{\phantom{woah}}woah.
- Where does DNA replication occur in eukaryotes?
- What would happen if DNA replication didn't have DNA ligase?
- What direction does DNA replication occur along the template strand?
- What enzyme is responsible for unzipping the DNA strand?
- What is the spot where the double-helix begins to unwind into template strands called?
- What splits the double-helix into two strands?
- What structure does DNA polymerase require to begin placing new DNA nucleotides?
- What DNA strand are the sections of unjoined nucleotides left on?
- What is the short stretch of RNA that DNA polymerase needs in order to begin replication?
- What is the function of primase?
- What enzyme removes the RNA primers and replaces them with DNA once replication is done?
- Does the diagram above show DNA replication in a prokaryotic or eukaryotic organism?
- How many replication forks are present in the DNA segment above?
- The diagram above shows DNA replication in a eukaryotic organism. How many origins of replication are there?
- The replication rate is the same across all the replication forks. Keeping this in mind, which origin of replication formed first?
- A molecule of DNA is undergoing replication. The following is a part of one of the template strands. What is the complementary sequence? 3’ ACGTCAGGCT 5’\text{3' ACGTCAGGCT 5'}3…
- In order for replication to occur, the DNA helix has to unwind. What needs to happen for the strands to come apart?
- During which phase of the cell cycle does DNA replication occur?
- Looking at the diagram above, which letter represents the lagging strand?
- It is now known that DNA replication is a semi-conservative process. However, before this was discovered, scientists had three theories for how the process worked. All three the…
- What type of replication occurs at the leading strand?
- The picture above shows DNA replication. What type of organism is the replication occurring in?
- What model of replication is seen in DNA replication?
- 000‾\underline{\phantom{000}}000 primers are placed on DNA molecules in order for 000‾\underline{\phantom{000}}000 polymerase to be able to attach to begin replication.
- What direction does DNA polymerase synthesize (write) the new strand of DNA?
- Which type of macromolecule is DNA polymerase?
- Which strand is able to be replicated continuously?
- Helicase is an enzyme that breaks the hydrogen bonds between base pairs in the double helix, beginning at the origin of replication. What might be characteristic of the regions …
- Which bonds need to be broken in order for the double helix to unwind during DNA replication?
- Which enzyme joins the replicated segments on the lagging strand of DNA?
- What is the name of structure d in the diagram of DNA replication shown above?