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प्रश्न
Retroviruses do not follow central Dogma. Comment.
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उत्तर
Genetic material of retrovirus is RNA. At the time of synthesis of protein, RNA is ‘reverse transcribed’ to its complementary DNA first, which is opposite to the central dogma. Hence, retrovirus are not known to follow central dogma.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Group the following as nitrogenous bases and nucleosides:
Adenine, Cytidine, Thymine, Guanosine, Uracil and Cytosine.
Which property of DNA double helix led Watson and Crick to hypothesise semi-conservative mode of DNA replication? Explain.
One turn of DNA possesses ______.
A nucleoside differs from a nucleotide. It lacks the ______.
Both deoxyribose and ribose belong to a class of sugars called ______.
The fact that a purine base always paired through hydrogen bonds with a pyrimidine base leads to, in the DNA double helix ______.
Who amongst the following scientists had no contribution in the development of the double helix model for the structure of DNA?
Protein helping in opening of DNA double helix in front of replications fork is ______.
If 30 percent of an organism’s DNA is thymine, then ______.
By which bonds the purine and pyrimidine pairs of Complementary Strands of DNA held together?
There is no DNA in ______.
DNA is made of two chains that twist about one another in the shape of a ______.
______ occurs in RNA instead of the nitrogenous base thymine found in DNA.
Which of the following is a structural subunit of DNA?
A peptide chain assumes secondary structure through the formation of ______.
In the polynucleotide chain of DNA, a nitrogenous base is linked to the -OH of ______
A short piece of DNA, having 20 base pairs, was analyzed to find the number of nucleotide bases in each of the polynucleotide strands. Some of the results are shown in the table.
| Number of nucleotide bases | ||||
| Adenine | Cytosine | Guanine | Thymine | |
| Strand 1 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Strand 2 | 5 | |||
How many nucleotides containing Adenine were present in strand 2?
What is the smallest part of a DNA molecule that can be changed by a point mutation?
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplifies DNA following the equation.
