Enzymes
Which enzyme "unzips" DNA?
What is helicase?
What molecule contains the instructions for life?
What is DNA?
What are the three stages of replication?
What are initiation, elongation, and termination?
Which strand is built continuously?
What is the leading strand?
Which base pairs with adenine?
What is thymine?
Which enzyme connects the Okazaki fragments?
What kind of shape is DNA?
What is a twisted ladder/double helix?
What is semiconservative replication?
After replication, each new DNA molecule has a parent strand and a new strand.
Which strand is built discontinuously?
What is the lagging strand?
What is the name of the Y-shaped area where the DNA is replicating?
What is the replication fork?
Which enzyme reduces supercoiling?
What is topoisomerase?
What are the four DNA bases?
What is A, T, C, and G/adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine?
During which stage are new DNA strands built?
What is elongation?
What are the pieces on the lagging strand called?
What are Okazaki fragments?
What are the sides of the DNA made of?
Sugar and phosphate!
Which enzyme builds the new strand?
What is DNA polymerase III?
Which bases pair together?
Where does DNA replication start?
What is the origin of replication?
Which strand needs many RNA primers?
What is the lagging strand?
What is supercoiling of the DNA?
When the DNA becomes too twisted after being separated by helicase!
What would most likely happen if primase were not present?
DNA replication could not begin!
What kind of bonds are the bases connected by?
What are hydrogen bonds?
Why does DNA need to replicate?
They need to replicate to grow, repair damage, and reproduce!
Why is the lagging strand built in pieces?
Because DNA can only be built in one direction, so the in the opposite direction, it's built in pieces!
What bases are the origin of replication usually rich in?
Adenine and thymine!