During DNA packaging in eukaryotic cells, Non Histone Chromosomal proteins:

1. Are not required

2. Are required from the beginning to the end of packaging

3. Are required only for earlier stages of packaging

4. Are required for higher level of packaging

Subtopic:  DNA Packaging |
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Frederick Griffith discovered:

(1) DNA is the genetic material

(2) RNA can be the genetic material

(3) Sterptococcus has two strains

(4) Bacterial transformation

Subtopic:  Search for Genetic Material:I | Search for Genetic Material |
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In Avery, Macleod and McCarty experiment, the transformation of bacteria was inhibited by:

(1) Proteases

(2) RNase

(3) DNase

(4) None of these

Subtopic:  Search for Genetic Material: II | Search for Genetic Material |
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Viruses grown on radioactive sulfur contain:

(1) Radioactive proteins but not DNA

(2) Radioactive DNA but not proteins

(3) Radioactive proteins and DNA

(4) Nonradioactive DNA and protein

Subtopic:  Search for Genetic Material: II | Search for Genetic Material |
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Hershey and Chase proved DNA as the genetic material as in their experiment:

(1) Bacteria that were infected with viruses that had radioactive proteins were not radioactive

(2) Bacteria that were infected with viruses that had radioactive DNA were radioactive

(3) Both 1 and 2 are correct

(4) Both 1 and 2 are incorrect

Subtopic:  Search for Genetic Material: II | Search for Genetic Material |
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RNA is not the genetic material in:

1. Tobacco mosaic virus

2. QB bacteriophage

3. HIV

4. Archaebacteria

Subtopic:  DNA vs RNA as Genetic Material |
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DNA is structurally and chemically more stable than RNA because of all the following except:

(1) It has thymine instead of uracil

(2) 2’ –OH is absent in DNA

(3) It replicates itself based on complementary base pairing

(4) It does not have any catalytic role

Subtopic:  DNA vs RNA as Genetic Material |
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The protein synthesizing machinery of a cell has evolved around:

(1) DNA

(2) RNA

(3) Protein itself

(4) Viroids

Subtopic:  The DNA | DNA vs RNA as Genetic Material |
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Who proposed semi-conservative mode of replication for DNA?

(1) Watson and Crick

(2) Meselson and Stahl

(3) Hershey and Chase

(4) Beadle and Tatum

Subtopic:  DNA Replication: I | DNA Replication |
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What radioactive isotope was use by Meselson and Stahl to label DNA in their experiment?

1. 35 S

2. 15 N

3. 32 P

4. None

Subtopic:  Search for Genetic Material: II | Search for Genetic Material |
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