DNA is replicated by _____ - Answers polymerases
DNA polymerase catalyzes the _____ formation - Answers phosphodiester linkage
DNA replication requires the activated precursors: ___, ___, ___, ___ and ___ ion - Answers dATP, dCTP,
dGTP, TTP, Mg2+
the new DNA strand is assembled directly on a preexisting DNA ____ - Answers template
DNA polymerases require a ____ to begin synthesis
A ^^ strand has a free ___ end
Formation of the phosphodiester linkage releases ____
Polymerization is driven by ____
Elongation procedes in the __ to __ direction - Answers primer
3'-OH
PPi
hydrolysis of PPi
5' to 3'
many DNA polymerases are able to correct mistakes in DNA by removing ____ nucleotides - Answers
mismatched
DNA polymerase I has three distinct active sites: - Answers polymerase site, 3'-5' exonuclease site, 5'-3'
exonuclease site
the specificity of replication is dictated by ____ and ____ - Answers complementarity of bases, induced
fit
the separation of DNA strands requires specific ____ and ____ - Answers helicases, ATP hydrolysis
Werner syndrome characterized by premature aging is the result of defects in ____ activity - Answers
helicase
_____ prepare the double helix for unwinding by introducing or eliminating ____ - Answers
topoisomerase, supercoils
____, a topoisomerase, is the target of antibacterial drugs, such as those for UTIs or anthrax inhibition -
Answers DNA gyrate
, ______ removes mismatched nucleotides from the 3' end by hydrolysis - Answers DNA polymerase I
exonuclease
If a wrong nucleotide is inserted, it is not held as tight and flops into the exonuclease site. This flopping
is known as ____ - Answers Brownian motion
In E. coli, DNA replication starts at a single site, known as ____ - Answers oriC locus
The oriClocus contains four copies of a sequence that are preferred binding sites for the origin-specific
protein ___. The sequence is rich in __ pairs - Answers DnaA
AT
The ___ protein is a helices that utilizes ATP hydrolysis to unwind the duplex - Answers DnaB
___ proteins bind to the newly generated single-strand regions, preventing two complementary strands
from re-forming the double helix - Answers single-strand binding (SSB)
all the proteins that initially bind DNA are referred to as ____ - Answers prepriming complex
___ primes the synthesis of DNA - Answers RNA
a specialized RNA polymerase called ___ joins the prepriming complex in a multisubunit assembly called
the ___ - Answers primase, primosome
the site of DNA synthesis is called the ____ - Answers replication fork
a significant proportion of newly synthesized DNA exists as small fragments, known as ____. As
replication proceeds, they are joined by ____ - Answers okazaki fragments, DNA ligase
the enzyme responsible for synthesis is _____ - Answers DNA polymerase III
ability of an enzyme to catalyze many consecutive reactions without release its substrate - Answers
processivity
the __ subunit plats a key role in replication by serving as a sliding DNA clamp - Answers beta2
the mode of synthesizing the lagging strand is known as ____ - Answers trombone model
DNA in eukaryotes has multiple _____ - Answers origins of replication
each origin of replication is known as a ____ - Answers replicon
proteins called ____ ensure that each replicon is replicated only once - Answers licensing factors
An initiator polymerase called _____ beings replication - Answers polymerase alpha
the principal replicator is ____ - Answers DNA polymerase delta