9.3 Replication of DNA

9.3 Replication of DNA

Multiple Choice

A process in which DNA has the unique ability to make an exact copy of itself.

• Replication
• Translation
• Transcription

Multiple Choice

Polymerase is able to replicate the new DNA ______ along the leading strand.

• continuously
• only in short fragments
• very slowly
• prokaryotically

Multiple Choice

The enzyme that unzips the DNA to prepare for replication

• helicase
• replicase
• polymerase
• synthase

Multiple Choice

Which enzyme fixes the Okazaki fragments in the lagging strand?

• Helicase
• Polymerase
• Ligase
• Primerase

Multiple Choice

What is responsible for holding the two strands of the DNA double helix together?

• hydrogen bonds
• alleles
• London dispersion forces
• deoxyribose sugars

Multiple Choice

If the percentage of DNA is made of 30% Thymine, what is the correct percentage of Guanine?

• 30
• 15
• 20
• 60

Multiple Choice

The separation of the two single strands of DNA creates a ‘Y’ shape?

• enzyme

• unzip

• A replication fork