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chapter 10

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Chromosomal regions which are always heterochromatic and permanently inactive with regard to transcription?

a)

Constitutive heterochromatin

b)

Facultative heterochromatin

c)

Euchromatin

d)

Transcription

2.

How is a multiprotein complex which plays a critical role in sister chromatid alignment called?

a)

Condensin

b)

Histone proteins

c)

Cohesin

d)

Non-histone protein

3.

What would you call a collection of fibers that line the inner nuclear membrane?

a)

Nuclear matrix

b)

Nuclear lamina

c)

Internal nuclear matrix

d)

30-nm fiber

4.

An enzyme which can relax negative supercoils?

a)

DNA gyrase

b)

Topoisomerase I

c)

Topoisomerase II

d)

Telomerase

5.

Regions of DNA that bind to the nuclear matrix, or nucleoskeleton?

a)

Scaffold-attachment regions

b)

Matrix-attachment regions

c)

Intergenic regions

d)

Condensed regions

6.

Number of times a particular base sequence appears throughout the genome?

a)

Transposable elements

b)

Moderately repetitive sequences

c)

Highly repetitive sequences

d)

Sequence complexity

7.

Specialized regions at the end of linear chromosomes, which prevent chromosomal rearrangements such as translocation and chromosome shortening?

a)

Centromeres

b)

Kinetochore

c)

Telomeres

d)

Nucleoid

8.

A highly compacted chromosome found inside a bacterial cell:

a)

Nucleoid

b)

Nucleotide

c)

Nucleosome

d)

Nucleus

9.

A segment of chromosomal DNA folded into a structure that resembles a loop:

a)

DNA supercoiling

b)

Loop domains

c)

Nucleoid

d)

Introns

10.

Or a tandem repeat, when a very short nucleotide sequence is repeated many times in a row:

a)

Tandem array

b)

Moderately repetitive sequences

c)

Highly repetitive sequences

d)

Sequence complexity