DNA replication - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 3: Bonus 5

The minute (“my-NOOT”) virus of mice, or MVM, is commonly used as a model for gene expression, alternative splicing, and this process in parvoviruses. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this genetic process in which a new DNA strand is generated from a pre-existing DNA template.

ANSWER: DNA replication [or genome replication; accept DNA synthesis; prompt on synthesis]

[10m] Since they possess linear genomes, termination of rolling replication in parvoviruses has to be induced via the formation of these structures. Pseudoknots are formed from the intercalation of two or more of these structures.

ANSWER: hairpins [or hairpin loops; accept RNA hairpins or DNA hairpins; accept stem-loops; accept rolling-hairpin replication or rolling-hairpin synthesis; prompt on RHR; reject “loops” or “DNA loops”]

[10h] Before being cleaved by NS1 and Cap, these molecules are generated by parvoviruses after iterations of rolling-hairpin replication. These molecules consist of multiple identical DNA sequences linked end-to-end.

ANSWER: concatemers [prompt on genome tetramers]

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Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
38	10.26	71%	26%	5%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	BHSU	0	0	0	0
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	10	0	0	10	E
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	10	10	10	30	EMH
Berkeley A	Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	10	0	0	10	E
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	10	10	0	20	EM
Chicago !A	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	10	0	0	10	E
David Foster Gromit	Copán Seethe	10	0	0	10	E
Dielectrical Materialism	C R A B S	0	10	0	10	M
Dour Straits	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Say It Ain't Zhou	10	10	0	20	EM
Habitat 67	NYU A	10	0	0	10	E
Indiana	Execute Order 6 7	10	0	0	10	E
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Catholic University A	0	0	0	0
Maybe Ever	four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	10	0	0	10	E
Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	0	0	0	0
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	Mike and Psmith	10	0	0	10	E
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	1000000 Delinquents	10	10	0	20	EM
Noah Sheidlower	Shipping Down from Ballston	0	0	0	0
Northwestern	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	10	10	0	20	EM
Not Old! (Old)	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20	EM
Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	10	10	0	20	EM
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	Invective Against Swans	0	0	0	0
Rosslyn Academic Team	Contessa Dora	10	0	0	10	E
St. Marx	WashU	0	0	0	0
Stanford A	Team 7	10	0	0	10	E
Team 8	Stanford B	10	0	0	10	E
The "C" Team	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	0	0	0	0
The Fire Neg Time	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	10	0	10	20	EH
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	10	0	0	10	E
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	Lex	10	10	0	20	EM
UBC A	UBC B	10	0	0	10	E
UNC Charity	Penn State	0	0	0	0
UTK	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	0	0	0	0
Untitled Keyal Team	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	10	0	0	10	E
Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	10	0	0	10	E
Vacuous Tortoise	No Country for Old Quizzers	10	0	0	10	E
[Redacted]	W&L+Friend	10	0	0	10	E
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	JHU	10	10	0	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✕	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	6.00	60%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%