Micro Chapter 9

The ___ DNA strand is the strand that is not directly used for transcription into mRNA during protein synthesis.

nontemplate

Genetic inheritance in microorganisms is best defined by which term?

Heredity

An enzyme that is named for its ability to build strands of DNA is DNA...

Polymerase

The enzyme responsible for building the DNA strand, proofreading newly produced DNA strands, and removing the RNA primer are DNA ___ I and III.

Polymerase

The initiation of transcription occurs when RNA polymerase recognizes and binds to a region of DNA called the ___ region.

promoter

What is the correct order of events in transcription?

1. initiation 2. Elongation 3. Termination

Nucleotides can only be added to the ___ end of a growing chain

3'

All new DNA strands are synthesized...

5' to 3'

DNA polymerases are responsible for:

Building the DNA chain proofreading/repair

DNA polymerase___ is the enzyme responsible for building the DNA strand

III

DNA polymerase ___ is the main enzyme involved in the building of the new DNA chain, whereas DNA polymerase___ is involved mostly with removing the primers and repairing damaged DNA.

III/ I

The large enzyme complex involved in synthesizing RNA from a DNA template is called__ ___.

RNA Polymerase

The Main enzyme responsible for transcription is...

RNA polymerase

The complementary sequence to 5'-AAGTC-3' is

TTCAG