{"id":370,"date":"2009-12-23T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T02:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=370"},"modified":"2009-12-23T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T02:34:22","slug":"%eb%8b%b5-ncea-l3-dna-replication-q-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"(\ub2f5) NCEA L3: DNA Replication Q [3]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Answers to Part C:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">1. Describe the process of DNA replication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>DNA replication involves strands of DNA (double helical molecule with anti-parallel chains) locally unwinding to a single strand revealing free 3&#8242; and 5&#8217;ends (via DNA helicases). DNA polymerase synthesizes new nucleotides from 5&#8242; to 3&#8242; end (the leading strand) and the Okazaki fragments assemble and join to the 3&#8217;end of the lagging strand. These are then linked by the enzyme ligase. The new DNA strand is rewound back into a helix.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">2. DNA replication is described as a semi-conservative process. Explain what is meant by semi-conservative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Semi-conservative replication refers to the fact that the parental DNA acts as a template for the two new strands of DNA that are synthesized. The new DNA strand consists of 50% old DNA and 50% new DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answers to Part C: 1. Describe the process of DNA replication. DNA replication involves strands of DNA (double helical molecule with anti-parallel chains) locally unwinding to a single strand revealing free 3&#8242; and 5&#8217;ends (via DNA helicases). DNA polymerase synthesizes new nucleotides from 5&#8242; to 3&#8242; end (the leading strand) and the Okazaki fragments assemble &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(\ub2f5) NCEA L3: DNA Replication Q [3]&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"(\ub2f5) NCEA L3: DNA Replication Q [3] - science4all","description":"Answers to Part C: 1. Describe the process of DNA replication. DNA replication involves strands of DNA (double helical molecule with anti-parallel chains) local"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}