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  • Question
  • The synthesis of DNA by DNA polymerase occurs in the


  • Options
  • A. 3' to 5' direction
  • B. 5' to 5' direction
  • C. 5' to 3' direction
  • D. 3' to 3' direction

  • Correct Answer
  • 5' to 3' direction 


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    • 1. DNA replication rates in prokaryotes are approximately of the order of

    • Options
    • A. 10 bases per second
    • B. 1,00 bases per second
    • C. 1,000 bases per second
    • D. 10,000 bases per second
    • Discuss
    • 2. Which of the following possesses both 5'-3' and 3'-5' exonuclease activity?

    • Options
    • A. Kornberg enzyme
    • B. DNA polymerase III
    • C. Taq DNA polymerase
    • D. None of these
    • Discuss
    • 3. During DNA replication in prokaryotes, synthesis begins on the circular chromosome

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    • A. always at the same place
    • B. at any stretch of DNA that is high in AT pairs
    • C. randomly on the chromosome
    • D. at the promoter
    • Discuss
    • 4. The enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of DNA is called

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    • A. DNA polymerase
    • B. DNA gyrase
    • C. DNA ligase
    • D. helicase
    • Discuss
    • 5. During which of the following process a new copy of a DNA molecule is precisely synthesized?

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    • A. Trasformation
    • B. Transcription
    • C. Translation
    • D. Replication
    • Discuss
    • 6. Which of the following statements on replication in E.coli is correct?

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    • A. It occurs in a unidirectional manner
    • B. It occurs in bidirectional manner
    • C. Always uses T7 DNA polymerase when infected by T7 phage
    • D. Occurs only when ? phase has infected E. coli
    • Discuss
    • 7. DNA gyrase is inhibited by

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    • A. tetracycline
    • B. nalidixic acid
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. cephalosporin
    • Discuss
    • 8. Which of the following repairs nicked DNA by forming a phosphodiester bond between adjacent nucleotides?

    • Options
    • A. Helicase
    • B. DNA gyrase
    • C. Topoisomerases
    • D. DNA ligase
    • Discuss
    • 9. In E.coli, which enzyme synthesizes the RNA primer for Okazaki fragments?

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    • A. DnaA
    • B. DnaC
    • C. DnaG
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 10. Both strands of DNA serve as templates concurrently in

    • Options
    • A. replication
    • B. excision repair
    • C. mismatch repair
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss


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