Mutations in BLM proteins involved in fixing the start of this process can lead to Bloom’s syndrome. During this process, one type of structure is produced in either “short” or “long” pathways depending on FEN1 (“fen-one”) activity. CDC7 and Dbf4 begin this process by phosphorylating the MCM complex. John Cairns experimented on theta structures that form during this process, which uses an enzyme that can be cleaved to form the Klenow fragment. The trimeric PCNA sliding clamp increases the processivity of an enzyme involved in this process. In this semiconservative process, Okazaki fragments on the lagging strand are fixed by ligase. This process occurs in the S phase of the cell cycle. For 10 points, name this first process of the central dogma, in which the genetic material of a cell is copied. ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 68.00 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 87.80 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 63.00 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.67 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.20 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 100% | 132.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 89.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.25 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 22% | 97.75 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 103.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | WashU B | 16 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 46 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | William & Mary | 46 | -5 |
| Rohan Shelke | UC Berkeley B | UCLA | 46 | 10 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | Cornell B | 46 | -5 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | NYU A | 46 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Virginia A | 48 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Missoui S&T | 49 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT A | Brandeis A | 49 | 10 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | Illinois C | 69 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago C | Indiana B | 70 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | Cornell D | 71 | -5 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Michigan A | 72 | 10 |
| Frederick Rivas-Giorgi | Yale A | Maryland A | 72 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | Alberta | 73 | -5 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | UNC D | 78 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | UCSD | 78 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | Florida B | 78 | 10 |
| Collin Nadarajah | WashU A | Chicago D | 85 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | BU | 88 | 10 |
| Enina Edosomwan | Case Western A | Michigan C | 88 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Chicago B | 89 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Carnegie Mellon B | 89 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Michigan D | 89 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 89 | 10 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia C | Penn A | 89 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | RIT B | 89 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UC Berkeley A | 90 | 10 |
| William Parocai | Dartmouth A | Tufts A | 90 | 10 |
| Jerry Zhang | Harvard B | Harvard A | 90 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Louisville A | 90 | 10 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | Liberty C | 90 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 90 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 90 | 10 |
| Eli Bettinger | ESF A | Binghamton A | 90 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin A | 91 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | TAMU | 91 | -5 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 91 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | Liberty A | 91 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Case Western B | 91 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | George Washington A | 91 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF B | 94 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | UCF C | 95 | 10 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Carnegie Mellon A | 95 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Minnesota B | 96 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin B | Carleton | 97 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | UMass Boston | 99 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UW A | 99 | -5 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | John Jay College | 125 | -5 |
| Sachin Poobalasingham | Wake Forest | Liberty B | 129 | -5 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 131 | 0 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | George Washington B | 131 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | UBC | 132 | 10 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 132 | 10 |
| Samuel Li | William & Mary | UNC C | 132 | 10 |
| Samuel Miller | Liberty B | Wake Forest | 132 | 0 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 132 | 0 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Columbia B | 132 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Vassar A | 132 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Haverford B | 132 | 0 |
| Sasha Wertime | Haverford B | NYU B | 132 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | Cornell C | 132 | 10 |