2.3 LEC Flashcards
Key Event in 1865
Mendel’s Law of Heredity
Key Event in 1866
Johanns Miescher, Purification of DNA
Key Event in 1949
Sickle Cell Anemia mutation was first studied
Key Event in 1953
Watson and Crick’s DNA structure
Key Event in 1970
Recombinant DNA technology
Key Event in 1977
DNA sequencing
Key Event in 1985
In vitro amplification of DNA (PCR)
Key Event in 2001
The human genome project
The building blocks of DNA and RNA
Nucleic Acids
3 functional groups of nucleotides
Nitrogenous Base
Pentose Sugar
Phosphate groups
Nucleic acids are made up of?
Long chains or strands or monomers of Nucleotides
Main function of Nucleic acids
store and transmit the genetic information from the DNA to become protein
Two types of Nucleic Acids
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Ribonucleic acid
Two types of nitrogenous bases
Purine Pyrimidine
Nitrogenous base made up of double ring structures
Purine
Purine examples
Guanine and Adenine
Nitrogenous base made up of single ring structures
Pyrimidines
Pyrimidine examples
Cytosine
Thymine
Uracil
Nitrogenous base found only in DNA
Thymine
Nitrogenous base found only in RNA
Uracil
Building block of the nucleic acid
Pentose sugar
Purpose of the 1st carbon in the pentose sugar
Hold the nitrogenous bases
Purpose of the 2nd carbon in the pentose sugar
Determines whether it is Deoxyribose or Ribose
What accessory is attached to the second carbon if the pentose sugar is a Deoxyribose?
Hydrogen group (H)
What accessory is attached to the second carbon if the pentose sugar is a Ribose?
Hydroxyl group (OH)
Purpose of the 3rd carbon in the pentose sugar
Attaches to the succeeding nucleotides with the phosphodiester bond
How to check if it is a deoxyribose or ribose other than the attachment
difference of nucleotide to nucleoside
If it is phosphorylated
Phosphorylated sugar is a monomer of
Nucleotide
Unphosphorylated sugar is a monomer of
Nucleoside
This end of the DNA always end with a free phosphate group
5’
This end of the DNA is the free sugar
3’
Usually found in nucleus and are found in the mitochondria
Macromolecule of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and hydrogen atoms
DNA
Rule that base pairs follows
Chargaff’s rule
Chargaff’s rule states that
Adenine with Thymine
Cytosine with Guanine
The formation of hydrogen bonds between two complementary strand of DNA is called
hybridization
More stable pair in the base pairs
Guanine and cytosine
Mechanisms of nitrogenous bases in order to prevent water
Decrease
Bond which joins the two strands
Hydrogen bond
Direction of reading DNA pairs
5’ to 3’
Enzyme responsible for polymerizing the nucleotide chains
DNA polymerase