A cell that accumulates lots of mutational damage to its DNA may escape the normal controls of the cell cycle and

become ____________________. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


cancerous
cancer

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If you were designing a method to specifically inhibit prokaryotic transcription, but not eukaryotic transcription, interfering with which of the following would work best?

A) an intercalating agent B) recognition of the promoter region C) DNase activity D) RNA polymerase II activity E) ribosomal binding

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________ incorrectly suggested that DNA has a triple helix structure.

A) Linus Pauling B) James Watson and Francis Crick C) Maclyn McCarty D) Rosalind Franklin

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A karyotype reveals the _____ of a single cell

a. base sequences b. chromosomes c. hereditary information d. clones

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From X-ray diffraction data, which of the

following was determined about DNA?

a. The amount of adenine equaled the amount of thymine. b. Different species have different proportions of adenine and guanine. c. Nitrogen containing bases were arranged on the outside of the double helix structure. d. The shape of the molecule could be a double helix. e. All of these were determined

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