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  • Question
  • The most stabilizing force for nucleic acids is


  • Options
  • A. hydrogen bonds
  • B. electrostatic bond
  • C. Van der Waals
  • D. conformational entropy

  • Correct Answer
  • Van der Waals 


  • Nucleic Acids problems


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    • 1. Nucleic acids can be analyzed experimentally by their

    • Options
    • A. molecular weight
    • B. absorption of visible light
    • C. absorption of uv light
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 2. Which pyrimidine base contains an amino group at carbon 4?

    • Options
    • A. Cytosine
    • B. Thymine
    • C. Uracil
    • D. Adenine
    • Discuss
    • 3. Which of the following is found on RNA but not DNA?

    • Options
    • A. Uracil
    • B. Deoxyribose
    • C. Phosphate
    • D. Adenine
    • Discuss
    • 4. A five carbon sugar lacking a hydrogen at the number 2 carbon is found in

    • Options
    • A. DNA
    • B. RNA
    • C. mRNA
    • D. rDNA
    • Discuss
    • 5. Which of the following is a purine?

    • Options
    • A. Cytosine
    • B. Adenine
    • C. Thymine
    • D. Uracil
    • Discuss
    • 6. The sugar in RNA is __________ , the sugar in DNA is __________

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    • A. deoxyribose, ribose
    • B. ribose, deoxyribose
    • C. ribose, phosphate
    • D. ribose, uracil
    • Discuss
    • 7. Nucleoside is a pyrimidine or purine base

    • Options
    • A. covalently bonded to a sugar
    • B. ionically bonded to a sugar
    • C. hydrogen bonded to a sugar
    • D. none of the above
    • Discuss
    • 8. Translation begins

    • Options
    • A. at the replication fork
    • B. on the lagging strand
    • C. at the start codon
    • D. in nucleus
    • Discuss
    • 9. The sequence of one strand of DNA is: 5' ATTGCCA 3', what is the sequence of the other strand?

    • Options
    • A. 5' TAACGGT 3'
    • B. 5' TGGCAAT 3'
    • C. 5' ATTGCCA 3'
    • D. 5' UAAGCCU3'
    • Discuss
    • 10. Bacterial protein called catabolic activator protein (CAP) is an example of

    • Options
    • A. negative control of gene expression
    • B. positive control of gene expression
    • C. second type of positive control of gene expression
    • D. none of the above
    • Discuss


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