EVALUATION

These end-of-chapter Evaluation questions test the full sweep of the chapter: the historical search for the genetic material (Griffith, Avery-MacLeod-McCarty, Hershey-Chase), the chemistry and packaging of DNA, the semi-conservative mechanism and enzymology of replication (including the Meselson-Stahl proof), transcription and its RNA-processing steps, the genetic code and how base-substitution and frame-shift mutations reveal its properties, tRNA's role as an adapter molecule, the mechanism of translation, negative regulation of gene expression via the lac operon, the goals a …