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1
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Is called the “Universal solvent”

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Water

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What are the unique properties of water?

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Water is polar.
water is both cohesive and adhesive.
Water has high specific of heat.
Water has a high heat of vaporization.
Water has a high thermal conductivity

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In each water molecule the two hydrogen atoms are linked the oxygen atom by?

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Hydrogen bond

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The two bond are highly polar because the oxygen is blank, while the hydrogen is blank

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Strongly attractive for electrons, weakly attractive

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When a positively charged region of one water molecule approaches a negatively charged region of a second water molecule , the electrical attraction between them can result in blank.

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Hydrogen bond

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Is described as the attraction between particles of the same substances.

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Cohesion

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is the attraction between two different substances.

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Adhesion

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A phenomenon where molecules will tow each other along when in a thin glass tube

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Capillary action

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Is the amount of heat needed to raise or lower 1g of a substance by 1C.

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Specific heat

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Is the energy needed to convert 1g of a substance from liquid to gas.

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Heat of vaporization

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What are the four major molecules that make up the cells?

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Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, Nucleic acid

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Are made up of monomer called simple sugar, which are held by a covalent bond glycosidic bond to form polymer. Serve as source of energy to fuel cellular processes.

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Carbohydrates

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Is composed of only one sugar. Example of this.

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Monosaccharides. Glucose, Fructose, Galactose

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Made up of two simple sugars. Example of this.

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Disaccharides. Sucrose, Maltose, Lactose

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Made up of multiple monosaccharides. Example of this.

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Polysaccharides. Glycogen, Starch, Cellulose, Chitin

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Are mostly composed of fatty acids and glycerols, which are held by ester linkages

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Lipids

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Like oils and fats are composed of three fatty acids bonded to glycerol

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Triglycerides

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Those found in plant cuticles are composed of variable number of fatty acids bonded to long chain alcohol ].

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Waxes

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Are composed of polar phosphate and two fatty acids bonded via glycerol

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Phospholipids

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Are composed of four fused rings of carbon atom with functional group attached.

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Steroids

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Are made up of nucleotides that are held by phosphodiester. They are important for the storage, transmission, and usage of genetic information.

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Nucleic Acids

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Are made up of amino acids, which are covalently linked by peptide bond.

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Proteins

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The side chains of the 20 amino acids can be categorized in four groups.

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Neutral-non polar, neutral-polar, acidic, basic

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4 structures of protein.

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Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary structures

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Is the simplest level of a protein structure. It is simply the sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide chain.

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Primary

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Refers to the local folded structures that form within a polypeptide due to interactions between atoms of the proteins.

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Secondary structures

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Is the overall three-dimensional structure of the polypeptide.

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Tertiary structure

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28
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Is formed when multiple polypeptide subunits are assembled.

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Quaternary structures

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29
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are protein that are considered as biological catalyst.

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Enzymes

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30
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Are substrate that sped up the rate of a chemical reaction.

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Catalyst

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31
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Help biological processes become faster by lowering the activation energy that must be supplied to break the bond in the reactant.

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Enzymes

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32
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The reactant to whom the enzyme acts

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Substrate

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33
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the catalytic reaction then occurs in a specific part of the enzyme called the

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Active site

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34
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Who discovered DNA?

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Friedrich Miescher

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35
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was discovered as an annoying contaminant int he purification of proteins.

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DNA

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36
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Discovered that DNA contains four bases

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Albrecht Kossel

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37
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Are heterolytic rings with carbon and nitrogen atoms

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Bases

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38
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Discovered in 1920s that there are 2 kinds of nucleic acids, which he called yeast acid

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Phoebus Levene

39
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A virus that carries only one DNA and four RNA

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Cytomegalovirus

40
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Discovered that DNA does not contain equal amounts of the four bases but the quantities differ depending on the surface of the DNA

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Erwin Chargaff

41
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The amount of adenine is always equal to the amount of thymine and the amount of guanine is equal to the amount of cytosine. This relationship is known as?

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Chargaff’s rule

42
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Condensed form of chromatin

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Chromosomes

43
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have no nucleus

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Prokaryotes

44
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Prokaryotes also frequently carry one or more smaller independent circular DNAs called?

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Episomes and Plasmids

45
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Do not integrate into the main chromosomes

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Plasmids

46
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Have real equivalent of the eukaryotic histones

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euryarchaeota

46
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Can reside in the cell as independent molecules or can integrate into the main chromosomes

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Episomes

47
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Are characterized by a nuclear membrane that surrounds their genetic patrimonium

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Eukaryotes

48
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Have no equivalent of the eukaryotic histones

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Crenarchaeota

49
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DNA replication and transcription take place in?

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Nucleus

50
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Protein synthesis occurs in?

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Cytoplasm

51
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Plays a vital role in in the transport of RNA and Proteins.

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Nuclear membrane

52
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Means colored body

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Chromosomes

53
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Were first discovered in the light microscope by using staining techniques

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Chromosomes

54
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The succession of nucleosomes forms a fibrous structure called?

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Chromatin

55
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The majority of the eukaryotic cells are?

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Diploid

56
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The two copies are called? one is derived from each parent

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Homologous

57
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Contains a single copy of each chromosomes

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Haploid

58
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Have more than two copies of each chromosome

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Polyploid

59
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This lacks of correlation between genome size and genetic complexity

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C-value paradox

60
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Number of genes/Mbp of DNA

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Genome density

61
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Intergenic regions consist of repetitive DNA

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Microsatellites, Genome wild repeats, Pseudo genes

62
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Confers a positive value or selective advantage to the host organic

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Intergenic DNA

63
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The separations require the action of a blank

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Topoisomerase

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The extremities of the linear eukaryotic chromosomes contain special sequences called? it plays an extremely important role in the replication of the linear eukaryotic DNA molecules

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Telomeres

65
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Plays an important role in the distribution of the sister chromatids to the daughter cells upon DNA replication and cell division.

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Centromere

66
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Is linked by two ester bonds with two sugar molecules

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Single phosphoryl group

67
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Impose the polarity of the DNA chain.

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Phosphodiester linkage

68
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The bases are attached to the sugar moieties by a blank formed between the C’1 atom of the sugar and the N1 atom of a pyrimidine residue or the N9 atom of a purine residue.

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Glycosidic bond

69
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How many hydrogen bonds for an A-T pair, G-C pair?

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2, 3

70
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Describe the purine and pyrimidine

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Purine is a larger molecule, double ring structure while pyrimidine is smaller, one ring structure

71
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What are the different forms of DNA?

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B-form
A-form
Z-form

72
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Where mostly the DNA exist in vivo?

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B-form

73
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Is a regular, right handle helix in which the turns run clockwise when locked at along the helical axis. The bases are lying approximately flat and perpendicular with respect to the helical axis.

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B-form

74
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Is a less hydrated form of DNA, it’s also shorter and larger than B-form DNA. Has more bps per turn. Bases are not lying flat as in B-form DNA, but they are slightly tilted with respect to the helical axis.

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A-form

75
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The only left-handed form of DNA. It has the least twisted structure and is underwound. Has only one groove, with a higher density of negative changes than the groove of B-form DNA.

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Z-form

76
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Is an important intermediated, generated by the action of the RecA protein in process of homologous DNA recombination.

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Triple-Stranded DNA

77
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Uses the complementary pairing of inverted repeat sequences in a single strand. It is also a structure that is widely found in nature and serves as a specific signal molecule in crucial cellular processes.

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Cruciform structure

78
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In nature, all DNA molecules are topologically blank

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constrained

79
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The crossing over of the helix over itself

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Writhe

80
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Plays an important role in vital processes such as DNA replication and transcription that generate tension in the DNA

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Topoisomerase

81
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Two major types of Topoisomerases

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Type I and Type II

82
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Is the simply the number of helical turns of one strand around the other.

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Twist

83
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Make transient single-stranded breaks and change the linking number in steps of one. Do not consume ATP and are monomeric enzymes.

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Type I Topoisomerase

84
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Make a covalent bond between the 5’ - phosphate end of the nick and the tyrosine residue and generate a free 3’ - OH end.

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Type IA

85
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A type of writhe which the long axis is twisted around itself.

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Interwound or plectonomic

86
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Is the total number of interwound or spiral writhes in cccDNA.

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Writhing number (Wr)

87
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Twist and writhe are convertible.

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False (Interconvertible)

88
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A type of writhe in which the long axis is wound in a cylindrical manner, as often occurs when DNA wraps around protein.

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Spiral or toroid

89
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It is the sum of two geometric components: the twist (Tw) and the writhe (Wr)

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Lk

90
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Make transient double stranded gaps and change the linking number in steps of two. Can generally act on both negatively and positively supercoiled DNA.

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Type 11 Topoisomerase

91
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Require the energy of ATP hydrolysis for their action

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Type II Topoisomerase

92
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Covalently link the tyrosine residue to the 3’ -P and generates free 5’ -OH bond

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Type IB

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