NDA2024General AbilityGeneral ScienceActual
Bacterial DNA is referred to as naked because it is not associated with:
Options
- Aany scaffold
- Bproteins
- Cribozymes
- Dplasmid
Correct answer
B. proteins
Step-by-step solution
In bacteria, the DNA is not complexed with histone proteins or other structural proteins as in eukaryotic cells. Instead, bacterial DNA is typically a circular molecule that exists in a region of the cell called the nucleoid. This lack of histones or other associated proteins is why bacterial DNA is considered "naked".