Bacterial and Viral Chromosome Structure Practice Problems

If a double-stranded linear molecule has a helix containing 20 complete turns, what linking number should it have for it to be considered as energetically relaxed if we change the linear molecule into a closed circle?

Kornberg was able to compare the nitrogenous base compositions of the DNA template with the DNA product. What was the result of his analysis?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a bacterial chromosome?

The untranscribed regions of DNA are called:

In E. coli, ______ is the enzyme that reduces the number of negative supercoils in a closed-circular DNA.

The process in which a bacteriophage infects a host cell while utilizing the host's own metabolism to create copies of itself that result in the eventual death of the host cell.

How do bacteria compress their DNA to fit into smaller spaces?