Questão 1
Questão
What monomer units make up the DNA molecule?
Responda
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Nucleotides
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Monosaccharides
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Amino acids
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Phospholipids
Questão 2
Questão
Which of the four nucleotide bases are purine bases?
Responda
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Adenine
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Guanine
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Cytosine
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Thymine
Questão 3
Questão
How many carbon rings do purine bases have?
Questão 4
Questão
Which of the four bases are pyramidine bases?
Responda
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Adenine
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Guanine
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Cytosine
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Thymine
Questão 5
Questão
How many carbon rings do pyramidine bases have?
Questão 6
Questão
In which direction do the nucleotide chains run in?
Questão 7
Questão
What type of sequences do restriction enzymes recognize?
Questão 8
Questão
All restriction enzymes recognize the same sequence. True or false?
Questão 9
Questão
Restriction enzymes that cut in the middle of the palindrome leave....
Questão 10
Questão
Restriction enzymes that cut at the end of the palindrome leave......
Questão 11
Questão
What enzyme could be considered the opposite to a restriction enzyme?
Responda
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RNA polymerase
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DNA ligase
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DNA polymerase
Questão 12
Questão
How do restriction enzymes cut DNA?
Responda
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They hydrolyse the phosphdiester backbone
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They perform a condensation reaction on the phosphodiester backbone
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They hydrolyse the hydrogen bonds between DNA bases
Questão 13
Questão
What type of bonds does DNA ligase form in DNA?
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Phosphodiester bonds
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Hydrogen bonds
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Peptide bonds
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Triple carbon bonds
Questão 14
Questão
What is the main piece of equipment required for gel electrophoresis?
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Agrose gel plate
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Test tube
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Restriction enzyme
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DNA primers
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Free nucleotides
Questão 15
Questão
What is gel electrophoresis used for?
Questão 16
Questão
Are DNA fragments positively or negatively charged?
Questão 17
Questão
Which end of the agrose gel plate will the DNA samples move towards?
Responda
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The positive end
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The negative end
Questão 18
Questão
Which fragments will move further during gel electrophoresis?
Questão 19
Questão
What are restriction maps used for?
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To map out plasmids
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To determine the size of fragments of DNA
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To replicate large amounts of DNA
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To discover new restriction enzymes
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To isolate restriction enzymes for later use
Questão 20
Questão
If a restriction enzyme cuts a plasmid in one place only, how many fragments of the plasmid will there be in total?
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One
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Two
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Three
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Not enough information
Questão 21
Questão
If a restriction enzyme cuts a plasmid in two places only, how many plasmid fragments will there be?
Responda
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One
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Two
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Three
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Not enough information
Questão 22
Questão
What is Polyermerase Chain Reaction (PCR) used for?
Responda
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Replicating known sequences of DNA
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Replicating unknown sequences of DNA
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Mapping out DNA sequence on a plasmid
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Cutting DNA at a particular sequence
Questão 23
Questão
What is missing from this list of what is required to complete PCR? Template, 2 primers, free nucleotides, buffer.
Responda
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DNA polymerase
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RNA polymerase
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More primers
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DNA ligase
Questão 24
Questão
What are the three stages of PCR?
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Denaturation
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Annealing
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Extension
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Replication
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Repetition
Questão 25
Questão
What temperature should denauration take place at in PCR?
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95 degrees
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50-65 degrees
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72 degrees
Questão 26
Questão
At what temperature should the annealing stage of PCR take place at?
Responda
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95 degrees
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50-65 degrees
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72 degrees
Questão 27
Questão
At what temperature should the extension stage of PCR taken place at?
Responda
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90 degrees
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50-65 degrees
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72 degrees
Questão 28
Questão
If there were four strands of DNA in the PCR before one cycle, how many would there be after the cycle has completed?
Questão 29
Questão
What is the purpose of the denaturation stage of PCR?
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To separate the strands of DNA
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To damage the DNA so that it cannot replicate as it would do in the cell
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To heat the DNA until it is no longer able to code for specific proteins
Questão 30
Questão
What enzyme extends the DNA strand during the extension phase of PCR?
Responda
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DNA polymerase
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RNA polymerase
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DNA ligase
Questão 31
Questão
When would you use cloning instead of PCR to replicate DNA?
Responda
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When there are more than 1000 base pairs in the sequence
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When the base sequence is unknown
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When the base sequence in known
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When the base sequence contains too many repetitions
Questão 32
Questão
Why is E. coli often used in the cloning process?
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Because it grows rapidly in cheap material
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Because it is the easiest bacteria to make safe for human use
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Because it is easy to extract the DNA from
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Because it is easy to re-insert the plasmid into
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Because it is a very common bacteria
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Because it has no cell membranes