1. A purified protein sample contains 10 ?g of protein and has an enzyme activity of 1 m mole of ATP synthesized/sec (1 unit). What is the specific activity of the final purified sample?
Correct Answer: the initiating amino acid is N- formyl methionine
3. Some genetic diseases cannot be diagnosed by changes in restriction sites. Some of these can be detected by allele-specific oligonucleotide probes. These are
Options
A. copies of the gene with an altered sequence so that a restriction site is inserted
B. mutagenized copies of a gene
C. short sequences that will hybridize only to a specific base sequence
D. PCR-amplified variable numbers of tandem repeats (VNTRs)
Correct Answer: roughly parallel to the helix axis
7. If the oxygen is labeled in CO2 and provide this CO2 to a plant, where it is expected to find this labeled oxygen after the plant had undergone photosynthesis?