MCAT Question of the Day


  • Q:

    Semidiscontinuous synthesis of one daughter strand in conjunction with continuous synthesis of the other daughter strand arises due to:

     

    A

    the pairing tendencies of purines and pyrimidines.

    B

    covalent bonding in the DNA backbone.

    C

    the antiparallel orientation of the parent DNA strands.

    D

    the necessity of a poly-A tail at the end of strand synthesis.



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