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Miesher noted that "nuclein"....
contains a large amount of phosphorous
Levene postulated that nucleic acid had...
a "tetranucleotide" repeating structure
Which of the following was not an observation made by Feulgen regarding DNA in the nuclei of cells?
The amount of DNA was the same for all prokaryotes
Griffith concluded that transformation was the result of...
Griffith did not identify the "transforming principle
Based on your knowledge of the Avery, Macleod, and McCarty experiments, RNA + live R cells resulted in...
no transformation
dna + live R cells resulted in
transformation
dna + dnase + live r cells resulted in
no transformation
In contrast to Griffth's earlier experiments, Dawson observed that transformation occurred...
In-vitro
Fraenkel-Conrat and Singer demonstrated that...
RNA is the genetic material of tobacco mosaic virus
Hershey and Chase demonstrated that...
DNA is the genetic material of T2 bacteriophage
Experiments revealing that bases were actually paired in DNA were...
NOT chargaff, okazaki, or meselson and stahl
Deoxythymidine is a...
nucleoside
Guanine is a...
2 amino, 6 oxy purine
Thymine is a
2,4 oxy, 5 methyl pyrimidine
In E. coli, the unwinding of DNA prior to replication is accomplished by the enzyme...
Helicase
Cytosine bound to a deoxyribose sugar results in a molecule of...
deoxycytidine
Adenine bound to a deoxyribose sugar results in a molecule of...
deoxyadenosine
X-ray diffraction experiments on crystalline DNA were performed by
Franklin and Wilkins
Franklin and Wilkins revealed the repetitive distances of
34, 20, and 3.4 angstroms
In examining the unwinding of DNA prior to transcription in E. coli, it is found that this unwinding is accomplished by the action of...
RNA polymerase + sigma
In rats, the recognition sequences in promoters for RNA polymerase II are...
"TATA" and "CAAT" boxes
In E. coli, the recognition sequences in promoters for RNA POLYMERASE ARE
-10 and -35 boxes
In rabbits, transcription of structural and non-structural genes requires...
More than one of the above...
In E. coli, the promoter sequence 5' TATAAT 3' is a....
consensus sequence
The organism utilized by Meselson and Stahl in their work demonstrating that replication is semiconservative was...
E. coli
A-form, Helix sense
right
Z-form, Helix sense
left
B-form:
Helix sense
Base pairs per turn
Rotation per base pair
Diameter of helix
right
10.0
+36.0
20
C-form:
Helix sense
Base pairs per turn
Rotation per base pair
Diameter of helix
right
9.3
+38.6
19
Molecules of snRNP are...
ribonucleoproteins
The snRNAs are...
involved in intron excision
In the lariat model of mRNA splicing....
none of the above
In tRNAs, the terminal ACC sequence is....
found at the 3' end
Stabilization of tRNA on the ribosome is the function of the...
T loop
Recognition by synthetase of tRNAs is associate with the...
D loop
In tRNAs, the D loop is found on the...
5' side
In tRNAs, the T loop is found on the...
3' side
Activation of amino acids requires...
aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase
transfer RNA molecules can be...
charged
the activation reaction requires a molecule of...
ATP
the charging reaction requires a molecule of...
I DONT KNOW
In E. coli, translation of the mRNA below would result in the polypeptide...
fmet-met-phe-val-pro-pro-phe
In the initiation of translation in E. coli, binding of mRNA to the 30S subunit of the ribosome is facilitated by...
IF-2
In the elongation stage of translation in E. coli, translocation of the ribosome requires
EF-G
A "Poly-U" RNA utilized as a mRNA results in an amino acid chain of...
phenylalanine
A tRNA with the anticodon 3' CUG 5' would recognize the mRNA condons
GAU & GAC
the genetic code is degenerate because...
amino acids have more than one codon
Activation of amino acids requires...
aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase
transfer RNA molecules can be...
charged
the activation reaction requires a molecule of...
ATP
the charging reaction requires a molecule of...
I DONT KNOW
In E. coli, translation of the mRNA below would result in the polypeptide...
fmet-met-phe-val-pro-pro-phe
In the initiation of translation in E. coli, binding of mRNA to the 30S subunit of the ribosome is facilitated by...
IF-2
In the elongation stage of translation in E. coli, translocation of the ribosome requires
EF-G
A "Poly-U" RNA utilized as a mRNA results in an amino acid chain of...
phenylalanine
A tRNA with the anticodon 3' CUG 5' would recognize the mRNA condons
GAU & GAC
the genetic code is degenerate because...
amino acids have more than one codon
of the 64 codons, 61 code for amino acids. thus, in e. coli, there are...
app. 50 different tRNAs
Which of the following can serve as a terminator codon?
UAG
Which of the following can serve as an initiator codon?
GUG
In a mouse cell, translation of the mRNA below would result in the polypeptide
met-val-phe-gly-lys-pro-met-val
Eukaryotic mRNAs are capped with
7 methyl guanosine
the process of adding a tail to mRNA is called...
polyadenylation
prokaryotic mRNAs can also be called...
primary transciprs, precursor mRNAs, or processed mRNAs
in eukaryotes, the commonly found rRNAs are...
5.8S; 16S, 23S, 28S
During initiation of translation, the initiator tRNA is positioned in the...
peptidyl binding site
during the elongation stage of translation, charged tRNAs are position in the A site utilizing an...
EF-Tu/GTP complex
translation results in...
mature mRNAs
the genetic code is...
non-overlapping, ambiguous, non restrictive
all amino acids have at lease 4 corresponding codons?
false
Crick showed that the genetic code was a triplet code by employing...
frameshift mutations
The 70S ribosome is composed of ___ and ____ subunits
30S and 40S
The 80S ribosome is composed of ___ and ____ subunits
30S and 50S