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BIOCHEM QUESTIONS:

Question 1) (1.5 points) True or false: The initial native DNA is usually in an overwound state, making the initial strand separation during replication energetically favorable, with continued strand separation at the replication fork resulting in underwound DNA that is then fixed by DNA gyrase.

Question 2) (1.5 points) True or false: UV based DNA damage largely causes dimerization of C and T bases that are fixed by the NER DNA repair pathway.

Question 3) (1.5 points) True or false: There is no enzyme within humans that has a reverse transcriptase activity.

Question 4) (1.5 points) True or false: One reason why uracil is not observed in DNA is that deamination of cytosine would result in Uracil and therefore potentially changing a GC base bp to an AT bp after a couple of rounds of replication.

Question #5: (1 point) Which of these statements is correct about the RNA polymerase? a) It makes tRNA, mRNA and rRNA b) It uses an RNA template c) It uses ATP, CTP, GTP and TTP d) It requires a primer

Question #6: (1 point) RNA polymerase grows the RNA chain in the 3’ to 5’ direction. a) True b) False

Question #7: (1 point) The mRNA is copied from the template strand. The mRNA has the exact same nucleotide sequence of the non-template strand except for U instead of T. a) True b) False

Question #8: (1 point) Only a limited portion of the DNA strand is copied by RNA polymerase, and there are initiation and termination signals for transcription. a) True b) False

Question #9: (1 point) The hairpin loop is the only way to conduct transcription termination in Prokaryotes. a) True b) False