Closer Look at Replication (1/3)

Question 1

What begins the process of replication.. and what does it do?

Answer 1

Helicase begins the process of replication, it is an enzyme that breaks the weak hydrogen bonds, allowing for DNA strands to unzip into 2 parent strands.

Question 2

After the helicase, what happens next in the process of replication?

Answer 2

Single Stranded Binding Proteins, bind to the unpaired DNA strands to stabilize them.

Question 3

After the SSBP, what happens next in the process of replication?

Answer 3

Topermierase help relieve the strain of twisting DNA ahead of the replication fork by breaking, swiveling and rejoining DNA strands.

Question 4

After the topoisonmerase, what is the next step of the replication process?

Answer 4

Primase, which adds the RNA primer.

Question 5

What is the RNA primer

Answer 5

The starting point of the attachment of the new nucleotides.

Question 6

Where does the semi conservative come into play in this replication process?

Answer 6

The single stranded DNA will act as templates for the making new DNA strands.