Question 1
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Which property is not essential for the origin of life?
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The need to store information
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The need to duplicate information
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The need to change information
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The need to make proteins
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The need to convert into favorable reactions
Question 2
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Why is it thought that ribozymes are likely to be a legacy from an ancestral RNA world?
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They are more stable than RNAs
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When they act, they require the presence of protein cofactors
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They act without the participation of protein cofactors.
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They can be made spontaneously without a DNA template.
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They are made by proteins
Question 3
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What was probably the first carrier of genetic information in primitive organisms?
Question 4
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________ can be used to purify transcription activator proteins
Question 5
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Sequence specific DNA binding proteins frequently have a region that binds in the major groove because:
Question 6
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The following secondary structures are known to specifically interact with DNA (select all that apply):
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Alpha helix
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Beta sheet
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Unstructured loops
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Double helix
Question 7
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What happens at the lac operon in the absence of glucose and presence of lactose?
Question 8
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Multiple binding sites for a repressor is advantageous because:
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There are too many repressors in cells
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DNA must be bent to allow transcription
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Repressors are only active when bound to many sites at once
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This increases the effective concentration of the repressor
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Repressors need multiple binding sites to bind ligands
Question 9
Question 10
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Mammalian x-chromosome inactivation:
Question 11
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CpG islands are generally found in
Question 12
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Deamination of methyl-cytosine:
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Does not occur
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Changes methyl-cytosine to thymine
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Only occurs in the sequence CG
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Results in genomic imprinting
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Occurs only in expressed genes
Question 13
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Sex determination in drosophila is due to:
Question 14
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Mirco RNAs (miRNAs):
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Are the same as rRNAs
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Are not encoded by the genome
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Are found only in bacteria
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Are involved in gene repression
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Are part of ribosomes
Question 15
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Attenuation involves regulation of:
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Translation
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Replication
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Recombination
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Transcription
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Proteolysis
Question 16
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Ion exchange chromatography separates:
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Proteins, based on size
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Proteins, based on surface charge
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Proteins, based on source
Question 17
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FRET is used to study:
Question 18
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SDS is used in protein gels to (select all that apply)...
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Make glassware clean up easier
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Help denature proteins
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To create a uniform mass/charge ratio
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To reduce disulfide bonds
Question 19
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DNA libraries are used to bank (select all that apply):
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Genomic DNA
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RNA
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cDNA
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Artificial chromosomes
Question 20
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Dideoxy nucleotides are used in DNA sequences to:
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Denature the DNA
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Hybridize the DNA
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Chain terminate the DNA
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Elongate the DNA
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Transcribe the DNA
Question 21
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Hybridization of nucleic acids refers to: