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 |
| Rohan Shelke | UC Berkeley B | UCLA | 46 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 46 | 10 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | Cornell B | 46 | -5 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | NYU A | 46 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | William & Mary | 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 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | BU | 88 | 10 |
| Enina Edosomwan | Case Western A | Michigan C | 88 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UC Berkeley A | 90 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Louisville A | 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 |
| William Parocai | Dartmouth A | Tufts A | 90 | 10 |
| Jerry Zhang | Harvard B | Harvard A | 90 | 10 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | Liberty C | 90 | 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 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin A | 91 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Case Western B | 91 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | Liberty 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 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | George Washington B | 131 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 131 | 0 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 132 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Haverford B | 132 | 0 |
| Sasha Wertime | Haverford B | NYU B | 132 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | Cornell C | 132 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | UBC | 132 | 10 |
| Samuel Li | William & Mary | UNC C | 132 | 10 |
| Samuel Miller | Liberty B | Wake Forest | 132 | 0 |