Chapter 1 Flashcards

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genotype

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your DNA sequence, both nuclear and mitochondrial

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phenotype

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collection of your observable traits other than your DNA sequence

phenotype = genotype + environment + life history + epigenetics

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epigenetic factors

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inheritable and acquired gene regulation patterns that alter gene function (phenotype) without changing gene structure (genotype)

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Most of your cells have the same DNA sequence except for …

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  • egg and sperm cells
  • erythrocytes (red blood cells)
  • cells of the immune system
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CRISPR-Associated (Cas) system

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powerful technique for genome editing

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The most general classification of cells according to their structure and molecular biology is …

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  • prokaryotes (cells without a nucleus)
  • eukaryotes (cells with a nuclei)
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What are the two problems cells face when structuring their DNA?

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  • packaging to fit (eukaryotes have an even harder challenge because they also have a nucleus to account for)
  • what to do during cell division, after DNA replication, to ensure each daughter cell gets one copy of the DNA
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proteins

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polymers of amino acids (20 amino acids which proteins are constructed from)

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ORF

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  • Open Reading Frame
  • found in protein-coding regions of a DNA sequence
  • starts with a start codon and ends with a stop codon
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exons and introns

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  • found in eukaryotes only
  • exons are the coding region
  • introns are the non-coding region that needs to be removed to form mRNA
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Why do genes for tRNA have a cloverleaf pattern?

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some regions are expressed as non-protein-coding RNA which may show regions of local self-complementarity corresponding to hairpin loops

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What are the two basic approaches to identifying genes in genomes?

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  • priori method: which seeks to recognize sequence patterns within expressed genes
  • ‘been there seen that’ method: which recognizes regions corresponding to previously known genes
  • combined approaches are also possible
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13
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metagenomic data

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sequences determined from environmental samples without isolating individual organisms

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14
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How much does any two person’s genomic sequence differ from one another?

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0.1% (except for identical siblings)

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Which changes in a DNA sequence count as a mutation?

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Any change including substitutions, insertions, translocations, and deletions

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16
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Many of the differences between individuals take which form?

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  • single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
  • short deletions
  • variations in number of replicates of repetitive sequences
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Mutations in different DNA molecules of diploid chromosomes become separated by … while mutations in the same DNA molecules become separated by …

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  • assortment
  • recombination (except for most of the Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA)
18
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What effect does “loss of function” mutations being recessive have?

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homozygosity for the mutant allele generally has more more severe consequences than heterozygosity

19
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Many diseases are associated with the formation of insoluble aggregates which are usually what?

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misfolded proteins

20
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How will mutations in the same DNA molecule in diploid chromosomes become unlinked?

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recombination events that occur between their loci (the greater the separation distance, the more recombination)

21
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The MHC region contains over 120 expressed genes, coding for proteins that do what?

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  • provide the mechanism by which the immune system distinguishes “self molecules from “non-self” molecules
  • determine individual profiles for competence for resistance to diseases
  • useful markers for determining relationships (among humans and animals)
22
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What are two basic approaches to reversing extinction?

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  • selective breeding
  • using CRISPR/Cas system to modify the genome of a living relative to approach that of the extinct species
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Gene Drive

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applies CRISPR/Cas technology to accelerate the dispersal of a chosen gene throughout a population (much faster than selective breeding)

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De novo sequencing

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sequencing a novel genome where there is no reference sequence available for alignment and sequence reads are assembled as contigs

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Resequencing
once a reference genome is available, fragment sequences are mapped on the reference genome
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What is exome sequencing used for?
- most inherited diseases result from the loss of activity of particular proteins which frequently arises from a specific mutation in the sequence coding for the protein (exon) - to identify such a mutation we only need to sequence the exons
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Central Dogma
DNA makes RNA makes Protein
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proteome
amino acid sequences of the proteins expressed
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Which RNAs are involved in the control of gene expression?
most non-coding RNAs except for RNAs involved in the machinery of protein synthesis, such as tRNAs an the ribosome
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pseudogenes
degenerate genes that have mutated so far from their original sequences that the polypeptide sequence they encode will not be functional
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Variable Splicing
possibility of omitting one or more exon