Characteristics of Living Creatures
1. Move
2. Eat
3. Sensitive to Stimuli
4. Breathe
5. Grow
6. Dispose of Waste
7. Reproduction
8. Adapt
Monoploid organisms reproduce asexually since they need to transmit all of their genetic material to their offspring. Diploid organisms, have 2 copies of their genetic material that differ slightly in their genes. Since the progeny gets half of the DNA from each parent, we have that new combinations can emerge; for example, if the mother is AA for some allele and the father aa, their offspring will be Aa, a new genotype. This might have different implications (for example, the recessive gene for thalassemia also provides resistance to malaria). Finally, during meiosis, there is also an event called crossover that increases the genetic variation of the offspring.
The correct matching of enzymes and their role in the process of DNA replication is A- 3, B- 5, C-1, D-2 and E-4.
Replication is the process of synthesis of two indentical copies of DNA from a single DNA molecule. It is catalyzed by a set of enzymes with the following function-
A. RNA primase synthesizes an RNA primer (short sequence of RNA) on the lagging strand complementary to the single stranded DNA which acts as template during DNA replication.
B. Ligase is involved in joining the okazaki fragments on the lagging strand together and sealing the nicks of the DNA strand.
C. Helicase separates the two DNA strands at the replication fork.
D. Polymerase synthesizes the complementary daughter strand by adding nucleotides to DNA.
E. Topoisomerase relaxes the highly coiled DNA by creating nick ahead of the replication fork in the phosphate backbone of DNA strands.
D! Predictable and controlled
Meiosis is when two parent cells give birth to two sister cells.
The cell that is created is a sister cell.
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