UAMS Molecular Diagnostics Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025

UAMS Molecular Diagnostics Exam 1
Questions & Answers 2024/2025

Which of the following is NOT an application of molecular diagnostic testing?



Cloning humans

Identifying bacterial pathogens

Detecting genetic disorders

Paternity Testing - ANSWERSCloning humans



Who is considered the "father of modern genetics"?



Erwin Chargaff

Frederick Griffith

Friedrich Miescher

Gregor Mendel - ANSWERSGregor Mendel



He isolated nuclein.



Frederick Griffith

Friedrich Miescher

Gregor Mendel

Erwin Chargaff - ANSWERSFriedrich Miescher



Experimenting with "R" and "S" strains of pneumococcus, he developed a "transforming principle."



Friedrich Miescher

, Gregor Mendel

Erwin Chargaff

Frederick Griffith - ANSWERSFrederick Griffith



T/F: Adenine & Thymine are both purines. - ANSWERSFalse



Which of the following does NOT have a single-ring structure?



Uracil

Thymine

Cytosine

Guanine - ANSWERSGuanine



Purine structure - ANSWERS2 rings



Pyrimidine structure - ANSWERS1 ring

Cytosine, thymine, & uracil



T/F: Guanine-Cytosine pairs form 3 hydrogen bonds. - ANSWERSTrue



The 5' end of a strand of DNA has a ________ on the end.



A phosphate group attached to a nucleotide

Free hydroxyl group

Free phosphate group

A hydroxyl group attached to a nucleotidde - ANSWERSFree phosphate group



Which enzyme unzips the genes in DNA replication?