Understanding DNA Sequencing

Practice Questions

GRE Subject Test: Biology › Understanding DNA Sequencing

Questions
3
1

Traditional Sanger style DNA sequencing relies on a method called chain termination. What type of molecule is used to terminate DNA chains to create molecules of all possible lengths covering the fragment to be sequenced?

2

Which of the following accounts for the inability of dideoxynucleotide triphosphates to further polymerize in Sanger DNA sequencing?

3

The determination of the order of the four bases—adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine—in a strand of DNA is termed __________.

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