Don and Jack Are Roommates in a Dorm on Campus

question 43

Multiple Choice

Don and Jack are roommates in a dorm on campus. After a late class one night, Don plans to meet up with some friends at a club in town. When he gets to his car, he finds that one of his tires has been slashed and a racial slur has been spray painted on the side of the vehicle. When Jack finds out what happened to Don, he is angry and convinced that the perpetrator was Clay, a student who has been making derogatory comments about Don since the beginning of the term. What should Jack do?

• A) Find Clay and fight him to stand up for Don.
• B) Slash the tires on Clay's car as revenge.
• C) Work with others to organize a campus unity rally.
• D) Avoid the situation because he was not the victim.

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Definitions:

Linear DNA

DNA molecules that exist in a straight or linear form, as opposed to circular DNA found in some bacteria and the mitochondria of eukaryotes.

Unwound Chromatin

Refers to the relaxed form of chromatin, making it accessible for processes like transcription and replication.

Nucleosomes

Repeating units of chromatin structure, each consisting of a length of DNA wound around a complex of eight histone molecules. Adjacent nucleosomes are connected by a DNA linker region associated with another histone protein.

Scaffolding Proteins

Nonhistone proteins that help maintain the structure of a chromosome.