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 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | NYU A | 46 | 10 |
| Rohan Shelke | UC Berkeley B | UCLA | 46 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | William & Mary | 46 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 46 | 10 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | Cornell B | 46 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Frederick Rivas-Giorgi | Yale A | Maryland A | 72 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Michigan A | 72 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | Alberta | 73 | -5 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | UCSD | 78 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | Florida B | 78 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | UNC D | 78 | 10 |
| Collin Nadarajah | WashU A | Chicago D | 85 | 10 |
| Enina Edosomwan | Case Western A | Michigan C | 88 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | BU | 88 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Chicago B | 89 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 89 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | RIT B | 89 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Carnegie Mellon B | 89 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Michigan D | 89 | 10 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia C | Penn A | 89 | 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 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UC Berkeley A | 90 | 10 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | Liberty C | 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 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Case Western B | 91 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | Liberty A | 91 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UW A | 99 | -5 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | UMass Boston | 99 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Haverford B | 132 | 0 |
| Sasha Wertime | Haverford B | NYU B | 132 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | Cornell C | 132 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 132 | 0 |
| Samuel Miller | Liberty B | Wake Forest | 132 | 0 |
| Samuel Li | William & Mary | UNC C | 132 | 10 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 132 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Columbia B | 132 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Vassar A | 132 | 10 |