Which scientists first gave experimental evidence that DNA is the genetic material?

1. Avery, MacLeod , and McCarty who repeated the transformation experiments of Griffith, and chemically characterized the transforming principle.

2. Garrod, who postulated that Alcaptonuria, or black urine disease, was due to a defective enzyme.

3. Beadle and Tatum, who used a mutational and biochemical analysis of the bread mold Neurospora to extablish a direct link between genes and enzymes. 

4. Meselson and Stahl who showed that DNA is replicated semiconservatively.

The function of the rho protein is 

1. to help terminate translation

2. to help RNA polymerase bind to the DNA

3. to help RNA polymerase find a promoter

4. to help terminate transcription

Genetic information in a DNA molecule is coded in the:

1. Sequence of nucleotides

2. Base pairings 

3. Proportion of each base present

4. The turning pattern of the helix

In DNA replication, the Okazaki fragments on the lagging strand are joined together by:

1. DNA ligase

2. DNA polymerase

3. Primase

4. Helicase 

The enzyme that catalyzes the peptide bonding in prokaryotes is located in the:

1. Leader region of the mRNA

2. Central part of tRNA

3. Smaller subunit of the ribosome

4. Larger subunit of the ribosome

In general, bacterial genes are regulated at the time of:

1. Transcription

2. Post transcription

3. Translation

4. Post translation  

The insertion or deletion of a base pair into the genetic code will cause a frame shift mutation unless the number of base pairs inserted or deleted is:

(1) One

(2) Two

(3) three

(4) Ten

If there are 999 bases in an RNA that codes for a protein with 333 amino acids and the base at position 901 is deleted such that the length of teh RNA becomes 998 bases, how many codons will be altered?

(1) 1

(2) 11

(3) 33

(4) 333

DNA fragments are

(1) positively charged

(2) negatively charged

(3) neutral

(4) either positively or negatively charged depending on their size

During DNA replication, Okazaki fragments are used to elongate

(1) The leading strand towards replication fork

(2) The lagging strand towards replication fork

(3) The leading strand away from replication fork

(2) The lagging strand away from replication fork