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- Why make recombinant proteins?a. to produce enough for use in biomedical applications b. to modify existing proteinsc. to study protein functionD. all of these
- Plasmids only contain one type of gene. true or false?
- Why are software programs used to identify motifs?a. the algorithms are more precise than trying to identify by eyeb. more domains fan be identifiedc. the simplify the processd. all of these are reasons
- Cloning is only something that humans can cause. true or false
- Which of the following is not an example of a naturally occurring transgenic organism?a. sweet potatob. humans c. Pearson aphidD. all of these
- What is plasmid Ori?a. the site that plasmid replication ends atb. the site that plasmid replication begins atc. an antibiotic resistance geneD. none of these
- What is the benefit that running a gel has for checking nucleic acid quality over spectrophotometer or fluorometry?a. degradation cannot be assessedb. contamination can be easily assessedc. a gel is not betterD. none of these
- Which of the following is not a type of extraction technique for nucleic acids?a. organicb. inorganicc. affinity d. all of these
- Why should nucleases be avoided in nucleic acid extractions?a. it can degrade the nucleic acidsb. the downstream molecular biology reactions will failc. the nucleic acid quality will be lowd. all of these
- During translation, what recognizes the three stop codons?
- In which part of the cell are most eukaryotic ribosomes found?
- The genetic code specifies the sequence of nucleotides in _ and the sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide.
- A charged tRNA molecule is composed of the tRNA with its attached _.
- A _ sequence is the portion of an mRNA sequence that specifies the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide.
- The _ in tRNA binds to a codon in an mRNA.
- In the process of _, a DNA sequence is copied into an RNA sequence.
- The central dogma of gene expression at the molecular level is comprised of two steps. These two steps are: