Class 12 · Biology
Molecular Basis of Inheritance NEET Questions
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Example 1 · difficulty 2/5
In the bacteriophage infection experiment of Hershey and Chase, radioactivity was detected in the pellet after blending and centrifugation when the phages were labelled with ³²P. This observation indicated that
- A. ³⁵S-labelled protein had entered the bacterial cells
- B. ³²P-labelled DNA had entered the bacterial cells
- C. ³²P specifically labels the protein coat of the phage
- D. ³⁵S had become trapped inside the bacterial cell wall
Example 2 · difficulty 1/5
A double-stranded DNA fragment contains 600 adenine bases out of a total of 2000 nitrogen bases. Applying Chargaff's rule, the number of guanine bases in this fragment is
- A. 200
- B. 400
- C. 600
- D. 800
Example 3 · difficulty 3/5
During replication in E. coli, the two antiparallel strands of the parental duplex are copied differently. The lagging strand is synthesised discontinuously as short Okazaki fragments primarily because
- A. helicase unwinds the duplex only ahead of the leading strand
- B. DNA ligase can seal nicks only between leading-strand segments
- C. RNA primers are synthesised exclusively on the lagging strand
- D. DNA-dependent DNA polymerase catalyses polymerisation only in the 5'→3' direction
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