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 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | William & Mary | 46 | -5 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | Cornell B | 46 | -5 |
| Rohan Shelke | UC Berkeley B | UCLA | 46 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 46 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | Florida B | 78 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | UNC D | 78 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | UCSD | 78 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia C | Penn A | 89 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Michigan D | 89 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 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 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | Liberty C | 90 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 90 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 90 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Louisville A | 90 | 10 |
| Eli Bettinger | ESF A | Binghamton A | 90 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin A | 91 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | Liberty A | 91 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | George Washington A | 91 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Case Western B | 91 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | TAMU | 91 | -5 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 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 |
| Samuel Li | William & Mary | UNC C | 132 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | UBC | 132 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Columbia B | 132 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Vassar A | 132 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 132 | 0 |
| Samuel Miller | Liberty B | Wake Forest | 132 | 0 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 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 |