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2.7 DNA Replication, Transcription and Translation Flashcards

1
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What does the replication of DNA depend on?

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Complementary base pairing

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2
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What does helicase do to DNA?

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Helicase unwinds the double helix and separates the two strands

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How does helicase unwind the double helix?

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By breaking hydrogen bonds

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What does DNA polymerase do?

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Links nucleotides together to form a new strand, using the pre-existing strand as a template

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What is an Okazaki fragment?

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DNA fragments that are formed on the lagging template strand during DNA replication

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6
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What keeps an unwound DNA strand apart?

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Single-strand binding proteins

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7
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What are RNA primers?

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Short segments of RNA (10 nucleotides long) formed by primase

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8
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What is the purpose of RNA primers?

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Must bind to DNA segments to begin replication

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9
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What does primase do?

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Primase forms the short segments of RNA needed by RNA primer

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10
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In which directions do DNA strands grow?

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5’ to 3’

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11
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What does the 3’ end of DNA contain?

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Hydroxyl

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What does the 5’ end of DNA contain?

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Phosphate

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13
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What binds to unzipped DNA?

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Free nucleotides (Nucleoside triphosphates)

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14
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What catalyzes the nucleotide binding process?

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DNA Polymerase

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15
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Where does DNA polymerase elongate?

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The 3’ end

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16
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What is DNA polymerase?

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The catalyse of free nucleotides binding to DNA

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17
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What are the two strands during DNA nucleotide-binding?

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The leading strand and the lagging strand

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18
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What is Polymerase Chain Reaction?

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Produces large quantities of DNA

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19
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What are the three steps of Polymerase Chain Reaction?

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Occurs in a thermal cycler through:

Denaturation, annealing, and elongation

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20
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What does mRNA do?

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Takes a message from DNA in nucleus to ribosomes in cytoplasm

21
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What does rRNA do?

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rRNA and proteins make up ribosomes where proteins are synthesized

22
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What does tRNA do?

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tRNA transfers a particular amino acid to a ribosome

23
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What is transcription?

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Transcription is the synthesis of mRNA copied from the DNA base sequences by RNA polymerase

24
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Where does transcription take place?

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In the nucleus

25
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What are the steps of transcription? (1-3)

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  1. RNA polymerase attaches to a promoter on DNA
  2. Transcription factor is needed for polymerase to bind to DNA
  3. Complementary RNA nucleotides pair with DNA nucleotides of the strand
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What are the steps of transcription? (4-5)

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  1. RNA polymerase covalently bonds RNA nucleotides

5. Terminator sequence causes RNA polymerase to stop transcribing DNA, and to release mRNA

27
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What do spliceosomes do?

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Remove introns from DNA

28
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What is an exon?

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The part of DNA that will be expressed

29
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What is a codon?

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Three sequential bases on mRNA that correspond to one amino acid

30
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What is genetic code made of?

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mRNA triplets(codons)

31
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How many codons are there?

32
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How many amino acids are there?

33
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How many start codons are there? Stop codons?

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One start, three stop

34
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What is translation?

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The synthesis of polypeptides on ribosomes

35
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Where does translation take place?

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Takes place in cytoplasm

36
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What is a polypeptide?

A

A chain of amino acids

37
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What does translation depend on?

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The complementary base pairing between codons on mRNA and anticodons on tRNA

38
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What is translated during translation?

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Nucleic acids are translated to proteins

39
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What are the steps of translation?

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  1. Chain Initiation
  2. Chain Elongation
  3. Chain Termination
40
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What is Chain initiation?

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  1. A small ribosomal subunit attaches to mRNA start codon

2. First tRNA pairs with this codon and large ribosome subunit attaches to smaller ribosome subunit

41
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What is required to bring together necessary components during translation?

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Initiation proteins

42
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What is Chain Elongation?

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  1. New tRNA arrives at A site

2. Amino acid at P site is attached by a peptide bond to the newly arrived amino acid

43
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What catalyzes Chain Elongation?

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Larger ribosome’s ribozyme

44
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What is translocation?

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When tRNA moves from site A to P in translation

45
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What is Chain Termination?

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  1. Occurs at stop codon that does not code for amino acid

2. Release factor protein binds to stop codon

46
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What are polyribosomes?

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Clusters of several ribosomes synthesizing the same protein

47
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In what way is DNA replicated?

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Semi-conservative

48
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What does conservative replication look like?

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One old DNA, and one new DNA

49
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What does dispersive DNA look like?

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Chunks of new and old DNA for each new strand

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