Tag: structure of chromosome, cell cycle and cell division
Questions Related to structure of chromosome, cell cycle and cell division
Base pairs present in one turn of DNA are
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$12$
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$11$
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$10$
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$9$
The similarity between bacterial and eukaryotic DNA is that both are
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Circular
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Single stranded
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Double stranded
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All the above
Length of one turn of DNA is
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$34 \mathring{A}$
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$3.4 \mathring{A}$
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$0.34 \mathring{A}$
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$20 \mathring{A}$
The two strands of DNA are held together by bonds of
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Nitrogen
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Oxygen
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Hydrogen
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Carbon
DNA is very long. It is accommodated in small sized nucleus by
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DNA-ase digestion
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Super coiling
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Elimination of repetitive DNA
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Deletion of non-essential genes
DNA is very long. It is accommodated in the small-sized nucleus by super coiling. The enzyme topoisomerase helps in the supercoiling of the DNA which helps in packaging and some biological process. The super coiled DNA is uncoiled during the process of transcription and translation. During transcription the enzyme helicase cuts the phosphate backbone and separates the two super coiled DNA strands while the topoisomerase balances the strain and prevents the recoiling of the DNA.
A $68nm$ length double stranded DNA has 24 adenine nucleotices. What must be the number of guanine nucleotides?
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$48$
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$72$
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$76$
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$176$
Length of $3.4 nm $ includes $10$ base pairs.So, $68 nm $ will include $200$ base pairs that is $400$ bases.
The genetic information in the body is encoded in the
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Structural proteins
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Enzymes
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DNA
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DNA and enzymes
Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid or DNA carries the genetic information in the form of small segments known as genes and is also the genetic material in various organisms including humans.
Information from X-ray crystallographic data collected by was used by Watson and Crick in their development of the model of DNA.
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Chargaff
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Griffith
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Franklin
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Hershey and Chase
Although the discovery of the structure of DNA was attributed to Watson and Crick, a keynote player in helping them discover this structure was a scientist by the name of Rosalind Franklin. Rosalind Franklin, along with Francis Wilkins, worked on DNA applying X-ray crystallography to find out its structural properties. X-ray crystallography required the process of exposing a crystal specimen (DNA) to X-rays to determine the locations of the atoms in the “molecules that comprises basic unit of crystal called unit cell”.
The purines of DNA are represented by guanine and thymine.
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True
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False
Adenine and Guanine are the two purines found in DNA and RNA. The pyrimidines of DNA are represented by thymine and cytosine.
Which of the following general statement about the structure of DNA is true?
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The hydrogen bonds connecting base pairs exist in a polar environment.
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Both major and minor grooves are formed between the phosphate-sugar backbone.
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The same C and N atoms are present in each groove.
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The amount of energy required to break down the AT and GC pairs is the same.
The DNA double helical structure has two different environments. The nitrogenous bases have an aromatic ring structure and are hydrophobic and interact with each other through base pair stacking interactions. At the same time, the back bone of DNA formed by phosphodiester bonds is hydrophilic and interacts with water. The nitrogenous bases of one nucleotide chain form hydrogen bonds with the nitrogenous bases present directly opposite them on the other chain. The hydrogen bonds are formed in polar aqueous environment. The adenine base pairs with thymine with two hydrogen bonds and guanine base pairs with cytosine with three hydrogen bonds.
So, the correct answer is option A.