Biochemistry 4th Edition by Donald Voet - Test Bank

1.  Cytosine, uracil, and thymine are derivatives of ______.

Ans:  D

Section 3.1

Difficulty:  Easy

Learning Objective: Nucleotides

2.  Nucleic acids are composed of nucleotides that are linked by ______ linkages.

Ans:  B

Section 3.2.A

Difficulty:  Easy

Learning Objective: Introduction to Nucleic Acid Structure

3.  Organisms composed of cells with two sets of chromosomes are called ______ organisms.

Ans:  A

Section 3.3.A

Difficulty:  Easy

Learning Objective: Overview of Nucleic Acid Function

4.  Eukaryotic genes often contain regions that are transcribed and later excised from the RNA, called ______.

Ans:  E

Section 3.5.D

Difficulty:  Moderate

Learning Objective: Overview of Nucleic Acid Function

5.  Experiments by Avery and colleagues proved that DNA was the substance that _____ a non-pathogenic pneumococcus strain into a virulent strain.

Ans:  G

Section 3.3.A

Difficulty:  Moderate

Learning Objective: Overview of Nucleic Acid Function

6.  The method that Sanger developed for DNA sequencing using dideoxy nucleotides is called the ______ method.

Ans:  K

Section 3.4.C

Difficulty:  Easy

Learning Objective: Nucleic Acid Sequencing

7.  Plasmids are small, circular DNA molecules that are used in ______.

Ans:  F

Section 3.5.A

Difficulty:  Easy

Learning Objective: Manipulating DNA

8.  Certain plasmids contain genes that confer resistance to ______.

Ans:  I

Section 3.5.A

Difficulty:  Easy

Learning Objective: Manipulating DNA

9.  A small fragment of labeled DNA or RNA used in a hybridization experiment is called a ______.

Ans:  C

Section 3.5.B

Difficulty:  Easy

Learning Objective: Manipulating DNA

10.  After hybridization, the fragment of interest can be detected by ______.

Ans:  J

Section 3.5.B

Difficulty:  Easy

Learning Objective: Manipulating DNA