CH16

Question 1

Which of the following sets of materials are required by both eukaryotes and prokaryotes for replication?
A) double-stranded DNA, four kinds of dNTPs, primers, origins
B) topoisomerases, telomerases, polymerases
C) G-C rich regions, polymerases, chromosome nicks
D) nucleosome loosening, four dNTPs, four rNTPs
E) ligase, primers, nucleases

Answer 1

A

Question 2

In his transformation experiments, what did Griffith observe?
A) Mutant mice were resistant to bacterial infections.
B) Mixing a heat-killed pathogenic strain of bacteria with a living nonpathogenic strain can convert some of the living cells into the pathogenic form.
C) Mixing a heat-killed nonpathogenic strain of bacteria with a living pathogenic strain makes the pathogenic strain nonpathogenic.
D) Infecting mice with nonpathogenic strains of bacteria makes them resistant to pathogenic strains.
E) Mice infected with a pathogenic strain of bacteria can spread the infection to other mice.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What is the basis for the difference in how the leading and lagging strands of DNA molecules are synthesized?
A) The origins of replication occur only at the 5’ end.
B) Helicases and single-strand binding proteins work at the 5’ end.
C) DNA polymerase can join new nucleotides only to the 3’ end of a growing strand.
D) DNA ligase works only in the 3’ → 5’ direction.
E) Polymerase can work on only one strand at a time.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

You briefly expose bacteria undergoing DNA replication to radioactively labeled nucleotides. When you centrifuge the DNA isolated from the bacteria, the DNA separates into two classes. One class of labeled DNA includes very large molecules (thousands or even millions of nucleotides long), and the other includes short stretches of DNA (several hundred to a few thousand nucleotides in length). These two classes of DNA probably represent
A) leading strands and Okazaki fragments.
B) lagging strands and Okazaki fragments.
C) Okazaki fragments and RNA primers.
D) leading strands and RNA primers.
E) RNA primers and mitochondrial DNA.

Answer 4

A

Question 5

The enzyme telomerase solves the problem of replication at the ends of linear chromosomes by which method?
A) adding a single 5’ cap structure that resists degradation by nucleases
B) causing specific double-strand DNA breaks that result in blunt ends on both strands
C) causing linear ends of the newly replicated DNA to circularize
D) adding numerous short DNA sequences such as TTAGGG, which form a hairpin turn
E) adding numerous GC pairs which resist hydrolysis and maintain chromosome integrity

Answer 5

D

Question 6

How do we describe transformation in bacteria?
A) the creation of a strand of DNA from an RNA molecule
B) the creation of a strand of RNA from a DNA molecule
C) the infection of cells by a phage DNA molecule
D) the type of semiconservative replication shown by DNA
E) assimilation of external DNA into a cell

Answer 6

E

Question 7

Cytosine makes up 42% of the nucleotides in a sample of DNA from an organism. Approximately what percentage of the nucleotides in this sample will be thymine?
A) 8%
B) 16%
C) 31%
D) 42%
E) It cannot be determined from the information provided.

Answer 7

A

Question 8

Use the following list of choices for the following question 
I. helicase 
II. DNA polymerase III 
III. ligase 
IV. DNA polymerase I 
V. primase 

33) Which of the enzymes covalently connects segments of DNA? 
A) I 
B) II 
C) III 
D) IV 
E) V

Answer 8

C

Question 9

What is the role of DNA ligase in the elongation of the lagging strand during DNA replication?
A) It synthesizes RNA nucleotides to make a primer.
B) It catalyzes the lengthening of telomeres.
C) It joins Okazaki fragments together.
D) It unwinds the parental double helix.
E) It stabilizes the unwound parental DNA.

Answer 9

C

Question 10

Which of the following would you expect of a eukaryote lacking telomerase?
A) a high probability of somatic cells becoming cancerous
B) production of Okazaki fragments
C) inability to repair thymine dimers
D) a reduction in chromosome length in gametes
E) high sensitivity to sunlight

Answer 10

D

Question 11

Eukaryotic telomeres replicate differently than the rest of the chromosome. This is a consequence of which of the following?
A) the evolution of telomerase enzyme
B) DNA polymerase that cannot replicate the leading strand template to its 5’ end
C) gaps left at the 5’ end of the lagging strand
D) gaps left at the 3’ end of the lagging strand because of the need for a primer
E) the “no ends” of a circular chromosome

Answer 11

C

Question 12

The DNA of telomeres has been found to be highly conserved throughout the evolution of eukaryotes. What does this most probably reflect?
A) the inactivity of this DNA
B) the low frequency of mutations occurring in this DNA
C) that new evolution of telomeres continues
D) that mutations in telomeres are relatively advantageous
E) that the critical function of telomeres must be maintained

Answer 12

E

Question 13

Which of the following investigators was/were responsible for the following discovery?
In DNA from any species, the amount of adenine equals the amount of thymine, and the amount of guanine equals the amount of cytosine.
A) Frederick Griffith
B) Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
C) Oswald Avery, Maclyn McCarty, and Colin MacLeod
D) Erwin Chargaff
E) Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl

Answer 13

D

Question 14

Which enzyme catalyzes the elongation of a DNA strand in the 5' → 3' direction? 
A) primase 
B) DNA ligase 
C) DNA polymerase III 
D) topoisomerase 
E) helicase

Answer 14

C

Question 15

What is the function of DNA polymerase III?
A) to unwind the DNA helix during replication
B) to seal together the broken ends of DNA strands
C) to add nucleotides to the 3’ end of a growing DNA strand
D) to degrade damaged DNA molecules
E) to rejoin the two DNA strands (one new and one old) after replication

Answer 15

C

Question 16

Use the following list of choices for the following question 
I. helicase 
II. DNA polymerase III 
III. ligase 
IV. DNA polymerase I 
V. primase 

34) Which of the enzymes synthesizes short segments of RNA? 
A) I 
B) II 
C) III 
D) IV 
E) V

Answer 16

E

Question 17

In analyzing the number of different bases in a DNA sample, which result would be consistent with the base-pairing rules? 
A) A = G 
B) A + G = C + T 
C) A + T = G + T 
D) A = C 
E) G = T

Answer 17

B

Question 18

53) The elongation of the leading strand during DNA synthesis
A) progresses away from the replication fork.
B) occurs in the 3’ → 5’ direction.
C) produces Okazaki fragments.
D) depends on the action of DNA polymerase.
E) does not require a template strand.

Answer 18

D

Question 19

) What is the function of topoisomerase?
A) relieving strain in the DNA ahead of the replication fork
B) elongating new DNA at a replication fork by adding nucleotides to the existing chain
C) adding methyl groups to bases of DNA
D) unwinding of the double helix
E) stabilizing single-stranded DNA at the replication fork

Answer 19

A

Question 20

The spontaneous loss of amino groups from adenine in DNA results in hypoxanthine, an uncommon base, opposite thymine. What combination of proteins could repair such damage?
A) nuclease, DNA polymerase, DNA ligase
B) telomerase, primase, DNA polymerase
C) telomerase, helicase, single-strand binding protein
D) DNA ligase, replication fork proteins, adenylyl cyclase
E) nuclease, telomerase, primase

Answer 20

A

Question 21

The leading and the lagging strands differ in that
A) the leading strand is synthesized in the same direction as the movement of the replication fork, and the lagging strand is synthesized in the opposite direction.
B) the leading strand is synthesized by adding nucleotides to the 3’ end of the growing strand, and the lagging strand is synthesized by adding nucleotides to the 5’ end.
C) the lagging strand is synthesized continuously, whereas the leading strand is synthesized in short fragments that are ultimately stitched together.
D) the leading

Answer 21

A

Question 22

Which of the following sets of materials are required by both eukaryotes and prokaryotes for replication?
A) double-stranded DNA, four kinds of dNTPs, primers, origins
B) topoisomerases, telomerases, polymerases
C) G-C rich regions, polymerases, chromosome nicks
D) nucleosome loosening, four dNTPs, four rNTPs
E) ligase, primers, nucleases

Answer 22

A

Question 23

A biochemist isolates, purifies, and combines in a test tube a variety of molecules needed for DNA replication. When she adds some DNA to the mixture, replication occurs, but each DNA molecule consists of a normal strand paired with numerous segments of DNA a few hundred nucleotides long. What has she probably left out of the mixture? 
A) DNA polymerase 
B) DNA ligase 
C) nucleotides 
D) Okazaki fragments 
E) primase

Answer 23

B

Question 24

In his work with pneumonia-causing bacteria and mice, Griffith found that
A) the protein coat from pathogenic cells was able to transform nonpathogenic cells.
B) heat-killed pathogenic cells caused pneumonia.
C) some substance from pathogenic cells was transferred to nonpathogenic cells, making them pathogenic.
D) the polysaccharide coat of bacteria caused pneumonia.
E) bacteriophages injected DNA into bacteria.

Answer 24

C

Question 25

Use the following list of choices for the following question 
I. helicase 
II. DNA polymerase III 
III. ligase 
IV. DNA polymerase I 
V. primase 

31) Which of the enzymes removes the RNA nucleotides from the primer and adds equivalent DNA nucleotides to the 3' end of Okazaki fragments? 
A) I 
B) II 
C) III 
D) IV 
E) V

Answer 25

D

Question 26

Which of the following help(s) to hold the DNA strands apart while they are being replicated? 
A) primase 
B) ligase 
C) DNA polymerase 
D) single-strand binding proteins 
E) exonuclease

Answer 26

D

Question 27

Use the following list of choices for the following question 
I. helicase 
II. DNA polymerase III 
III. ligase 
IV. DNA polymerase I 
V. primase 

32) Which of the enzymes separates the DNA strands during replication? 
A) I 
B) II 
C) III 
D) IV 
E) V

Answer 27

A

Question 28

In trying to determine whether DNA or protein is the genetic material, Hershey and Chase made use of which of the following facts?
A) DNA contains sulfur, whereas protein does not.
B) DNA contains phosphorus, whereas protein does not.
C) DNA contains nitrogen, whereas protein does not.
D) DNA contains purines, whereas protein includes pyrimidines.
E) RNA includes ribose, whereas DNA includes deoxyribose sugars.

Answer 28

B

Question 29

It became apparent to Watson and Crick after completion of their model that the DNA molecule could carry a vast amount of hereditary information in which of the following? 
A) sequence of bases 
B) phosphate-sugar backbones 
C) complementary pairing of bases 
D) side groups of nitrogenous bases 
E) different five-carbon sugars

Answer 29

A

Question 30

Replication in prokaryotes differs from replication in eukaryotes for which of the following reasons?
A) Prokaryotic chromosomes have histones, whereas eukaryotic chromosomes do not.
B) Prokaryotic chromosomes have a single origin of replication, whereas eukaryotic chromosomes have many.
C) The rate of elongation during DNA replication is slower in prokaryotes than in eukaryotes.
D) Prokaryotes produce Okazaki fragments during DNA replication, but eukaryotes do not.
E) Prokaryotes have telomeres, and eukaryotes do not.

Answer 30

B

Question 31

A new DNA strand elongates only in the 5’ to 3’ direction because
A) DNA polymerase begins adding nucleotides at the 5’ end of the template.
B) Okazaki fragments prevent elongation in the 3’ to 5’ direction.
C) the polarity of the DNA molecule prevents addition of nucleotides at the 3’ end.
D) replication must progress toward the replication fork.
E) DNA polymerase can only add nucleotides to the free 3’ end.

Answer 31

E

Question 32

An Okazaki fragment has which of the following arrangements?
A) primase, polymerase, ligase
B) 3’ RNA nucleotides, DNA nucleotides 5’
C) 5’ RNA nucleotides, DNA nucleotides 3’
D) DNA polymerase I, DNA polymerase III
E) 5’ DNA to 3’

Answer 32

C