UCF BIOLOGY FINAL EXIT PAPER 2026
HIGH-YIELD QUESTIONS WITH PRECISE
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Avery's experiment. Answer: DNA, not proteins, caused bacterial
transformation and is therefore the carrier of genetic information
⩥ Meselson's experiment. Answer: Showed that DNA replication is
semi-conservative
⩥ McClintock's experiment. Answer: Discovered transposons
⩥ Hershey-Chase experiment. Answer: Showed that only the DNA, no
proteins, from bacteriophage enters a bacteria.
This demonstrates that genetic information is carried in DNA.
⩥ Watson and Crick. Answer: Generated the double-stranded helix
model of DNA
⩥ Sliding clamp. Answer: Part of the DNA Pol. 3 holoenzyme
, Prevents the polymerase from dissociating from the template DNA
strand
⩥ DNA Helicase. Answer: Unwinds DNA, separating the two strands
⩥ Topoisomerase. Answer: Alters the supercoiled form of DNA
⩥ Telomerase. Answer: Adds a species-dependent telomere repeat
sequence to the 3' end of telomeres without the need for a DNA template
⩥ Order in which enzymes participate in DNA replication. Answer:
Topoisomerase
Helicase
Single-stranded binding proteins
Primase
DNA polymerase 3 holoenzyme
DNA polymerase 1
- Removes RNA primers and fills in gaps between Okazaki fragments
HIGH-YIELD QUESTIONS WITH PRECISE
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Avery's experiment. Answer: DNA, not proteins, caused bacterial
transformation and is therefore the carrier of genetic information
⩥ Meselson's experiment. Answer: Showed that DNA replication is
semi-conservative
⩥ McClintock's experiment. Answer: Discovered transposons
⩥ Hershey-Chase experiment. Answer: Showed that only the DNA, no
proteins, from bacteriophage enters a bacteria.
This demonstrates that genetic information is carried in DNA.
⩥ Watson and Crick. Answer: Generated the double-stranded helix
model of DNA
⩥ Sliding clamp. Answer: Part of the DNA Pol. 3 holoenzyme
, Prevents the polymerase from dissociating from the template DNA
strand
⩥ DNA Helicase. Answer: Unwinds DNA, separating the two strands
⩥ Topoisomerase. Answer: Alters the supercoiled form of DNA
⩥ Telomerase. Answer: Adds a species-dependent telomere repeat
sequence to the 3' end of telomeres without the need for a DNA template
⩥ Order in which enzymes participate in DNA replication. Answer:
Topoisomerase
Helicase
Single-stranded binding proteins
Primase
DNA polymerase 3 holoenzyme
DNA polymerase 1
- Removes RNA primers and fills in gaps between Okazaki fragments