IB Multiple Choice - DNA Replication

Test yourself on IB Multiple Choice - DNA Replication

• Describe how the model of DNA replication illustrates the function of topoisomerase.

• DNA replication is bidirectional and discontinuous; explain your understanding of those concepts.

• Which of the following experimental descriptions demonstrates how the scientific community learned that DNA replication takes place in a semiconservative fashion.

• What are Okazaki fragments and how they are formed?

• If the rate of replication in a particular prokaryote is 900 nucleotides per second, how long would it take to make two copies of a 1.2 million base pair genome?