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    This document contains 10 reading questions about chapters 9.1 and 9.2, which cover topics such as the discovery of the secondary structure of proteins using X-ray crystallography, the three parts of a nucleotide, the number of base pairs in the Escherichia coli genome, semi-conservative replication, enzymes that unwind and open DNA and add nucleotides to a growing DNA strand, Okazaki fragments, telomeres, the rate of nucleotide addition during E. coli replication, and genetic mutations.

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    This document contains 10 reading questions about chapters 9.1 and 9.2, which cover topics such as the discovery of the secondary structure of proteins using X-ray crystallography, the three parts of a nucleotide, the number of base pairs in the Escherichia coli genome, semi-conservative replication, enzymes that unwind and open DNA and add nucleotides to a growing DNA strand, Okazaki fragments, telomeres, the rate of nucleotide addition during E. coli replication, and genetic mutations.

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    Reading Questions for Chapter 9.1 & 9.

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    1. Who discovered the secondary structure of proteins using X-ray crystallography?

    2. What are the three parts of a nucleotide?

    3. How many base pairs does the bacteria Escherichia coli have in its genome?

    4. Each new double strand [of DNA] consists of one [old] parental strand and one new

    daughter strand. This is known as .

    5. Which enzyme unwinds and opens up the DNA helix?

    6. Which enzyme adds DNA nucleotides to the 3’ end of a growing strand of DNA?

    7. On the lagging strand, new DNA is put together in short pieces called

    8. The ends of linear chromosomes are known as .

    9. In Escherichia coli, how many nucleotides are added per second during replication?

    10. What do we call a permanent change in the DNA sequence?

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