POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION QUIZ

All of these

HIV-1 and HIV-2 viruses

Hepatitis B virus

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

the type of energy metabolism the bacterium has

whether the bacterium is motile

morphology of the bacterium

the species to which the bacteria are most closely related

m DNA

r RNA

t RNA

c DNA

build up of PCR product which competes with primers for hybrid formation

insufficient enzyme and time to synthesize mass quantity of DNA

all of these

reduction in substrate concentration

three steps

five steps

four steps

two steps

Taq polymerase

E. coli DNA polymerase

E. coli RNA polymerase

all of these

none of these

double stranded DNA

single stranded DNA

RNA

none of these

separating the different rRNA gene sequences in the mixture

the amplification process

preventing contamination by outside DNA