Replication

Question 1

What direction is DNA synthesized?

Answer 1

5-3 prime direction

Question 2

What kind of process is replication?

Answer 2

Semi-conservative

Question 3

What enzyme relaxes the supercoiling in front of the replication fork?

Answer 3

Topoisomerase

Question 4

What enzyme unzips the DNA strand?

Answer 4

Helicase

Question 5

What is the place where DNA opens up called?

Answer 5

Replication fork

Question 6

What things stabilize the parental strand?

Answer 6

Single-stranded binding proteins (SSB Proteins)

Question 7

What is a type of RNA polymerase that initiates DNA replication by synthesizing a short RNA primer?

Answer 7

Primase

Question 8

What is a short stretch of D/RNA that nucleotides bonded to the complimentary strand?

Answer 8

Primer

Question 9

What can DNA NOT begin without?

Answer 9

Primer

Question 10

What does DNA polymerase do?

Answer 10

Synthesizes new DNA strands continuously on leading strand and discontinuously on lagging strand

Question 11

Which DNA polymerase only reads from 3-5 direction?

Answer 11

DNA polymerase III

Question 12

Which DNA polymerase removes the RNA primer?

Answer 12

DNA Polymerase I

Question 13

Which DNA polymerase is mainly used for DNA repair?

Answer 13

DNA Polymerase II

Question 14

What does the Ligase do?

Answer 14

It binds Okazaki fragments to lagging strand

Question 15

What are the 3 stages or replication?

Answer 15

Initiation
Elongation
Termination