Answer:
The half-life of a substance is the amount of time it takes for half of that substance to decay. However, after two half-lives, half of the half remaining will decay, leaving you with one quarter of the original substance.
So, after 1 million years you will have 50% of the original substance remaining.
And, after 2 million years you will have 25% of the original substance remaining.
After 3 million years you will have 12.5% of the original substance remaining.
And after 4 million years you will have 6.25% of the original substance remaining.
Explanation:
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Answer:
DNA ligase
Explanation:
DNA replication is a process whereby a particular DNA makes a copy of or synthesizes itself. It consists of several steps with some important enzymes for successful, error free replication. The various steps are as follows;
- Unwinding of the double helix structure of the DNA and formation of replication fork. The enzyme involved here is the DNA helicase.
- Primer, a short piece of RNA becomes synthesized and binds to the 3' end of one of the 2 strands of the DNA, the leading strand. The enzyme involved is the DNA primase.
- Replication of the <em>leading strand</em> then proceeds with the elongation of the primer through the addition of bases in the 5' to 3' direction leading to the formation of continuous strands.
- The other strand of the DNA, known as the <em>lagging strand </em>starts its own replication by binding with multiple primers at different regions of the strand. Bases are then added to each primer leading to the formation of several, short discontinuous DNA strands known as Okazaki fragments. The enzyme involved in the elongation process is the DNA polymerase.
- Next is the termination of the replication process after the formation of the continuous and discontinuous strands. Exonuclease enzyme removes primers from the synthesized strands. Primers are replaced by appropriate DNA bases and the Okazaki fragments are joined to form a unified DNA strand by an enzyme known as the DNA ligase.
The many, few nucleotides long DNA segments observed by the Biochemist are the Okazaki fragments that should have been joined together by the DNA ligase.
Hence, DNA ligase must have been the component left of the mixture.
Answer:
The relationship between cell division and cell growth is that cell division needs to occur for the cells to divide and grow individually.
Explanation:
cell division refers to the process by which the mother cells divides into two daughter cells and cell growth refers to the process by which the size of the cell increases as it grows. They are two different but important and interlinked processes in the cell cycle. They depend on each other as failure in one will lead to failure in the other process too. The cell needs to grow proper in order to divide and create more cells.
