Core science for Otago's Health Sciences First Year — cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, chemistry for biological systems, physiology and anatomy. Built around the science each paper covers, not course administration.
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Cell structure, DNA replication, transcription and translation, and the cell cycle.
42 total questions
Card #1
Central dogma of molecular biology
Card #2
Semi-conservative DNA replication
Card #3
DNA polymerase — direction of synthesis
1. In which direction does DNA polymerase synthesise a new DNA strand?
2. Which enzyme joins Okazaki fragments into a continuous strand?
3. Which process removes introns from a pre-mRNA transcript?
1. DNA replication is described as ___-conservative because each new double helix keeps one parental strand.
Hint: Half of each new helix is old.
2. Short DNA segments made on the lagging strand are called ___ fragments.
Hint: Named after the researchers who described them.
3. The enzyme that seals the gaps between Okazaki fragments is DNA ___.
Hint: It ligates, or joins.
