TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 3681


 A mutated E. coli cell carries out and completes DNA replication, but the lagging strands are found to contain more errors than normal. These errors are not found evenly distributed throughout the lagging strands, but are found in clusters. Which enzymatic activity is missing from this cell?

#Part-A Aptitude & General Biotechnology
  1. the 3’→ 5’ exonuclease activity of pol III

  2. the 5’→ 3’ exonuclease activity of pol III

  3. the 3’→ 5’ exonuclease activity of pol I

  4. the 5’→ 3’ exonuclease activity of pol I