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2.3 NUCLEIC ACIDS Flashcards

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Key Event in 1865

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Mendel’s Law of Heredity

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Key Event in 1866

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Johanns Miescher, Purification of DNA

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Key Event in 1949

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Sickle Cell Anemia mutation was first studied

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Key Event in 1953

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Watson and Crick’s DNA structure

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5
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Key Event in 1970

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Recombinant DNA technology

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Key Event in 1977

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DNA sequencing

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7
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Key Event in 1985

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In vitro amplification of DNA (PCR)

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Key Event in 2001

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The human genome project

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The building blocks of DNA and RNA

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Nucleic Acids

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10
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3 functional groups of nucleotides

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Nitrogenous Base
Pentose Sugar
Phosphate groups

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Nucleic acids are made up of?

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Long chains or strands or monomers of Nucleotides

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12
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Main function of Nucleic acids

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store and transmit the genetic information from the DNA to become protein

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13
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Two types of Nucleic Acids

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Deoxyribonucleic acid
Ribonucleic acid

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14
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Two types of nitrogenous bases

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Purine Pyrimidine

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Nitrogenous base made up of double ring structures

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Purine

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16
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Purine examples

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Guanine and Adenine

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Nitrogenous base made up of single ring structures

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Pyrimidines

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18
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Pyrimidine examples

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Cytosine
Thymine
Uracil

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19
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Nitrogenous base found only in DNA

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Thymine

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20
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Nitrogenous base found only in RNA

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Uracil

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21
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Building block of the nucleic acid

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Pentose sugar

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22
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Purpose of the 1st carbon in the pentose sugar

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Hold the nitrogenous bases

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Purpose of the 2nd carbon in the pentose sugar

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Determines whether it is Deoxyribose or Ribose

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What accessory is attached to the second carbon if the pentose sugar is a Deoxyribose?

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Hydrogen group (H)

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What accessory is attached to the second carbon if the pentose sugar is a Ribose?

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Hydroxyl group (OH)

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Purpose of the 3rd carbon in the pentose sugar

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Attaches to the succeeding nucleotides with the phosphodiester bond

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27
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How to check if it is a deoxyribose or ribose other than the attachment

difference of nucleotide to nucleoside

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If it is phosphorylated

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28
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Phosphorylated sugar is a monomer of

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Nucleotide

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29
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Unphosphorylated sugar is a monomer of

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Nucleoside

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30
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This end of the DNA always end with a free phosphate group

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5’

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31
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This end of the DNA is the free sugar

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3’

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32
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Usually found in nucleus and are found in the mitochondria

Macromolecule of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and hydrogen atoms

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DNA

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33
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Rule that base pairs follows

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Chargaff’s rule

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34
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Chargaff’s rule states that

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Adenine with Thymine
Cytosine with Guanine

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35
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The formation of hydrogen bonds between two complementary strand of DNA is called

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hybridization

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36
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More stable pair in the base pairs

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Guanine and cytosine

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37
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Mechanisms of nitrogenous bases in order to prevent water

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Decrease

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38
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Bond which joins the two strands

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Hydrogen bond

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39
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Direction of reading DNA pairs

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5’ to 3’

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40
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Enzyme responsible for polymerizing the nucleotide chains

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DNA polymerase

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41
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How do we read the template strand

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3’ to 5’

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This unzips the DNA strand

43
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This will bind to the strand in order to prevent rebinding of unwound strands

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Single Stranded Binding Proteins

44
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Site where the helicase separates the strand

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Replication Fork

45
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Placed in front of the replication fork that prevents the supercoiling of the DNA

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Topoisomerase

46
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Important to produce RNA primer

It is only possible if it toward the replication fork

47
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Primase activates what

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DNA polymerase 3

48
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Responsible for adding the nucleotide bases to the daughter strand

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DNA polymerase 3

49
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Helps to connect okazaki fragments

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DNA ligase

50
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Direction of daughter strand synthesis

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5’ to 3’

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Enzymes for degradation of DNA

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Restriction enzymes

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Types of restriction enzymes

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Nucleases/ DNAses

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Types of Nucleases

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Exonucleases and Endonucleases

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It degrades the DNA from its end, either the 5’ to 3’

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Exonucleases

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Degrades in the middle, it is used if you want to insert a new sequence or cut them in the middle part. And to identify a recognition site of endonuclease

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Endonuclease

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Attacks specific sequence of DNA

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Restriction enzymes

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Restriction enzyme endonucleases types

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Action of type 1 restriction enzyme endonucleases

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Random Cut

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Important for molecular studies

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Type 2 restriction endonucleases

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Type 3 Restriction endonuclease action

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Non specific cut

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Type 2 Restriction endonuclease action

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Specific cut

62
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Adds methyl group to self nucleic acid so that it wont be degraded by Restriction enzymes

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Methyltransferase enzyme

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Mixture and assembly of new genetic combinations

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Recombination (sexual reproduction)

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Recombination of asexual organisms

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Conjugation
Transduction
Transformation

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Needs contact to have genetic exchange

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Conjugation

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Uses carrier to give genetic material from donor to receiver

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Transduction

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Useful in modern day recombination techniques

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Transformation

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Double stranded circles of 2,000-100,000 bp in size

carry genetic information

were found to be a source of resistant phenotypes in multidrug bacteria

carry antibiotic-resistant gene

very short sequence

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Single stranded whose main purpose is to translate the dna to become proteins

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Ribonucleic acid

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Nitrogen bases in RNA

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Adenine
Cytosine
Guanine
Uracil

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Types of RNA

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Ribosomal RNA
Messenger RNA
Transfer RNA
Small nuclear RNA

72
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Largest component of the cellular RNA 80%-90% of total cellular RNA

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Ribosomal RNA

73
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Three rRNA in prokaryotes

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16s 23s 5s (sedimentation coefficient)

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rRNA species in prokaryotes that is considered as the pre-ribosomal RNA

catalytic routes and structural routes

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Single 45s precursor RNA

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In prokaryotes, mRNA are simultaneously synthesized and translated into protein and it is also termed as

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polycistronic

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Eukaryotic mRNA is

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monocistronic

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In eukaryotes, synthesis and translation of mRNA are separated with

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Nuclear membrane barrier

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Translation of information from nucleic to acid to protein requires reading of mRNA by ribosomes, using adaptor molecules also called as

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Transfer RNA

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tRNA size

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73-93 bases
24,000-31,000 MW

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Responsible for carrying individual amino acids to the ribosome where they will be joined together by peptide bonds to make protein

contains UAG

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function in splicing in eukaryotes

sediment in a range of 6-8S

found only in nucleus

catalytic or structural only

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Small Nuclear RNA

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Unsaturated RNA molecules

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non coding RNA

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This is the copying of information from DNA to mRNA

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Transcription

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copying of one strand of DNA into RNA by a process of similar to that of DNA replication

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Gene expression

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Three types of RNA polymerase

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most useful coding RNA polymerase

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cellular location of pol I

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cellular location of pol II

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cellular location of pol III

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Products of pol I

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18s
5.8s
28s
rRNA

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Products of pol II

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mRNA
snRNA

93
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Products of pol III

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tRNA
5s
rRNA

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a-Amanitin of pol I

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Insensitive

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a-Amanitin of pol II

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a-Amanitin of pol III

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Inhibited by high concentration

97
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Other RNA metabolizing enzymes

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Ribonucleases:

Endoribonucleases - middle
Exoribonucleases - end

RNA helicases

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catalyze the unwinding of double stranded DNA

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RNA helicases

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DNA double helix that carries genes seen during cell division

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Chromosomes

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chromosome structure usually observed in cells

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Chromatin threads

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chromosome structure observed in dividing cell

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Individual collection of the chromosomes used to check abnormalities

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