Help with DNA Repair Processes

Practice Questions

GRE Subject Test: Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology › Help with DNA Repair Processes

Questions
5
1

What term best describes when RNA polymerase binds promoters and synthesizes and releases short mRNA transcripts in cycles before the RNA holoenzyme leaves the promoter?

2

What is translesion DNA synthesis?

3

Branched nucleic acid structures containing 4 double-stranded arms that are intermediates in genetic recombination and DNA repair are best known as?

4

If a double strand break (DSB) is not repaired during G1 phase of the cell cycle, what type of replication error would result during S phase at the site of the DSB?

5

Which of the following DNA repair mechanisms would be employed by the cell to repair DNA damage from UV light?

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