Your Patient Has a Fever of 39^oC, Sore Throat, Cough

Multiple Choice

Your patient has a fever of 39^oC, sore throat, cough, and chest pain. You ask her whether she has had pneumococcal vaccine this year, which protects against the the 23 most common strains of the causative bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. She says she has not. Your patient has a number of questions that you answer to help her understand the genetics of the organism causing her illness.
-Your patient somewhat remembers the details of replication but can't really recall what role various enzymes play in the process. You give her the information. Which of the following would you NOT tell her?

A) DNA gyrase temporarily breaks the strands of DNA, relieving the tension caused by unwinding the two strands of the DNA helix.
B) DNA polymerases synthesize the new stand of DNA using the parent strand as a template.
C) The antiparallel strands of DNA are joined together by DNA ligase.
D) Helicase unwind the DNA helix at the replication fork.
E) Primase synthesizes small fragments of RNA to serve as primers for DNA synthesis.