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Molecular Bio Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a natural substrate used for DNA replication using DNA Pol III? | dNTP |
| What is not in the replication fork? | Protease |
| The majority of new nucleotides are added by____? | DNA Pol III |
| Which of the following ions can be found in active site of DNA Polymerase III enzyme? | Mg and Zinc |
| Which of the following is false? The function of the metal ions in DNA polymerase catalytic pocket is? | Stabilize the template DNA |
| Which of the following amino acid residue of DNA polymerase play a critical role in the catalytic site of the DNA Pol during DNA replication by stacking with base of incoming nucleotide? | Tyrosine |
| DNA Polymerase enzyme cannot catalyse DNA synthesis: | -in the absence of 3'OH, in the absence of a primer, in 3' to 5' direction All of the above |
| For DNA replication in eukaryotic cells, which of the following enzyme is not involved? | DNA polymerase |
| DNA replication initiator interact with which of the following sites? | Binding site of a replicator |
| Which of the following is not a component of a replication fork? | Reverse transcriptase |
| Which of the following is unrelated to telomere synthesis or stability? | primer synthesis |
| Which of the following is not a component of a replicator? | Polymerase III recruiting site |
| Which of the following is not true? | Seq A is an important regulator in DNA replication fidelity control |
| To initiate DNA replication in E. coli, which of the following characteristics of protein DNA-A is not true? | Binding with Okazaki fragments |
| Which of the following is true relating to primer proteins? | "priming proteins" acts as a primer for DNA synthesis by providing a OH group |
| McM2-7 is a major player during DNA replication initiation, which of the following is true? | Its is a helices |
| Which of the following is false about Cdk, which is involved in the regulation of replication initiation? | Cdk level is high in G1 phase |
| Which of the following statements about telomerase is false? | Its RNA contains 10 times of the repeats of the telomere sequence |
| Which of the following DNA polymerase enzymes is not involved in eukaryotic cell DNA replication? | Pol Beta (B) |
| Which of the following is used for site specific genome editing before the discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 system? | TALEN (Transcription activator-like effector nuclease) |
| What of the following is true relating to Folk nuclease? | Folk nuclease is important for the TALEN system in genome editing |
| Which of the following is false relating to CRISPR? | When CRIPSR system provides acquired resistance against bacterial phage, Cas9 is the only nuclease used for defence |
| Which if the following is true relating to CRISPR? | CRISPR/Cas9 system can be used to target multiple sties of genome for mutations because we can provide multiple guide RNAs |
| In the CRISPR/Cas9 base editing system, DNA nick activity of the enzyme is important because ____? | It guides DNA repair on which of the two DNA strands |
| To create the first generation of base editor (BE1), a ___ is fused with a mutated Cas9 called dCas9 | Cytidine deaminase |
| Which of the following is not used in genome editing? | Regular DNA restriction enzymes |
| Which two small RNA molecules are critical to the CRISPR/Cas9 system to work in bacteria? | crRNA and tracrRNA |
| Cas9 is a ___? | RNA dependent DNA nuclease |
| If the cells failed to repair the errors introduced by the DNA replication, which of the following DNA repair systems had problems? | Mismatch repair |
| If xeroderma pigments symptoms are observed in a person, which of the following DNA repair systems may have a problem? | Nucleotide excision repair |
| Put the following steps in the correct order | 3,1,4,2,5 |
| Which process requires a cell to distinguish between a parental strand and a daughter strand of DNA? | Mismatch repair |
| Which of the following is false relating to DNA photolyase? | DNA photolyase is the primary mechanism used for DNA repair |
| What is the repair template during base excision repair? | The strand complementary to the damaged DNA |
| If damage occurs to the actively transcribed actin gene in a muscle cell____ | It would be repaired quickly because of the transcription coupled repair system |
| Which of the following is false transverion mutation? | C to T |
| Which of the following is a false translation mutation? | A to C |
| For mismatch repair, which of the following protein recognise the mismatch repair? | Mut S |
| Which of the following is unrelated to direct reversal repair? | Ligase |
| Which of the following is a true statement about the translation synthesis repairing? | It requires polymerase switching |
| Which of the following eukaryotic protein has a similar function to E. coli RecA? | Rad 51 |
| Which of the following is is true relating to RecA? | RecA forms filament and is essential for strand invasion |
| Which of the following is true relating to demethylase medicated direct reversal? | Demythlase mediated direct reversal DNA repair is rarely used for DNA repair |
| Which of the following is true? | SPO11 is a DNA polymerase |
| One mechanism of gene conversion is Synthesis-dependent strand annealing (SDSA), which of the following statements is false about SDSA? | Replication fork is not related to SDSA |
| Which of the following is the first step of homologous recombination? | Alignment of two identical or nearly identical DNA molecules |
| In the RecBCD pathway of homologous recombination, which of the following statements is false? | Chi site is rare in the genome |
| Which of the following proteins is not present in the Pre-RC in eukaryotic genome replication? | DNA polymerase |
| The function of topoisomerase in genome replication is ? | Both A and B: to release tension of supercoil and to disentangle circular genome |
| In a human chromosome, the telomere sequence is repeated.... | hundreds to thousands of times |
| If you detected A and T only in a short piece of nucleic acid molecule, the molecule ____ | can be DNA |
| If a DNA fragment contains 105 bps, which of the following is true? | The diameter of the DNA helix is about 20 Angstrom |
| Which of the following statements is false relating to DNA? | The two strands of a DNA helix are identical in nucleotide sequence |
| Which one of the following proteins is correct? | Major groove present the information of the DNA sequence to interacting partners |
| Which of the following is important for providing the DNA sequence information to other cellular partners? | All the three groups in other answers are important: proton receptors, proton donors, and methyl group |
| Which of the following is correct relating to minor grooves? | Minor groove doesn't provide enough information to reveal the DNA sequence |
| In a nucleotide such as dATP, the base is attached to the ____ carbon of deoxyribose | 1' |
| Which of the following is false relating to U pairing? | U can't pair with G in RNA |
| The histone H2A and H2B | form dimers in the cell |
| The DNA fragment wrapping around the histone core of a nucleosome | is about 147 bp |
| Centromere specific histone protein CENP-A is | H3 Variant |
| The bromodomain protein usually binds with ______ | acetylated histones |
| Which of the following statement about nucleosome remodelling complex is false? | Nucleosome remodelling complex is usually a single large protein |
| Which of the following is true about DNA methylation in insects? | In insects, DNA methylation occurs frequently in the coding region of a gene |
| Royal jelly is likely to _______ | reduce DNA methylation in selected genes |
| Which of the following process is not involved in X chromosome inactivation in mammals? | Xist RNA translation |
| The X chromosome inactivation (on the silenced chromosome) in mammals involved following steps in order: | Xist RNA expression, Xist RNA coding of the selected X chromosome, H3 lysine 27 methylation, and DNA methylation |
| What is the central dogma of molecular biology? | DNA Replication, transcription, and translation |
| What four bases pair with RNA? | A,G,C,U |
| What four bases pair with DNA? | A,G,C,T |
| How is RNA different from DNA? | Is a ribose sugar, has no one-to-one interactions, a complex tertiary structure, is more flexible than DNA) |
| What is an euchromatin? | Dark staining, densely packed DNA |
| What is a heterochromatin? | Light staining, loosely packed DNA |
| What is X chromosome inactivation? | When one pair of the X chromosomes on each cell is inactivated: dependent on Xist ncRNA and involved DNA methylation and histone modification |
| What DNA polymerases are involved with prokaryotes? | DNA Pol I and DNA Pol III |
| What DNA polymerises are involved with eukaryotes? | Pol a, Pol δ, and Pol ϵ |
| What is the function of DNA Pol I? | degrades primer, fills in gaps left by RNA primer removal |
| What is the function of DNA Pol III? | Chromsome replication |
| What is the function of DNA Pol a? | Primer synthesis, nucleotide and base excision repair |
| What is the function of DNA Pol δ? | Lagging-strand DNA synthesis, nucleotide and base excision repair |
| What is the function of DNA Pol ϵ ? | Leading-strand DNA synthesis, nucleotide and base excision repair |
| What metal ions are involved with DNA Pol? | Mg and Zinc |
| What amino acids are involved with DNA Pol? | Tyrosine, arginine and lysine |
| What is the role of tyrosine in relation to DNA polymerase? | Encourages "base-stacking" |
| What is the roles of argine and lysine in relation to DNA polymerase? | Stabilises pyrophosphate |
| What are cyclins and what are their roles? | Proteins that control cell progression through cell cycle; includes Cdk |
| Eukaryotic mRNAs are synthesised by? | RNA Polymerase II |
| Which of the following is more likely to be the -10 region sequence of the σ70 promoters? | TATAAT |
| Which of the following is usually far away from the -10 consensus sequence of a promoter in position? | UP element |
| There are five channels in the prokaryotic RNA polymerase holoenzyme. During isomerization, the protein σ1.1 fragment moves out of the ______ channel. | Downstream DNA entrance |
| The important phosphorylation sites of the CTD of RNA Pol II are? | Ser 2 and Ser 5 |