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1
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What is DNA a chain of?

A

Nucleotides.

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What do all nucleotides have?

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Phosphate group, deoxyribose sugar, nitrogen base.

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What are the purine bases?

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Guanine and Adenine.

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4
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How many rings do purine bases have?

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2.

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What do pyrimidines have?

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A single ring nitrogenous base.

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What are the single ring nitrogenous bases?

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Cytosine and Thymine.

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7
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Describe the backbone of a strand.

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One nucleotide connect to the other by phosphate groups. Sticking out of the sugar group is a nitrogenous base.

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What bases bond together?

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Adenine and thymine, cytosine and guanine.

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9
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How do the bases bond together?

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Hydrogen bonds.

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10
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What is the corresponding strand to CGGTACATG?

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GCCATGTAC.

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Describe the 2 strands.

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Anti parallel, many thousands of nucleotides in length, form a double helix structure.

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What is helicase?

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The enzyme that unzips double stranded DNA.

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13
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What is polymerase?

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An enzyme that fits complementary DNA nucleotides to complimentary bases on loose single strands.

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What is DNA replication?

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The process of copying one DNA double helix into two identical double helices.

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What is DNA ligase?

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Enzyme that seals any breaks in sugar phosphate backbones and ensure two new double helix molecules are identical to original.

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16
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What does each daughter DNA molecule consist of?

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One new chain of nucleotides and one from the parent DNA molecule.

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17
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Will the two daughter DNA molecules be identical to the parent molecule?

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Yes.

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18
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What is RNA?

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A single stranded molecule that has 3 of the same nucleotides as DNA. (Adenine, guanine, and cytosine) but has Uracil instead of thymine.

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What does RNA do?

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Help DNA produce proteins.

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20
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Describe mRNA.

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(Messenger RNA), produced in the nucleus, a section of DNA serves as a template to create a particular mRNA. Call this transcription.

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What does RNA polymerase do?

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Binds to a special sequence of DNA nucleotides in double helix.

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22
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What is the special sequence of DNA called?

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A promoter.

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23
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What do RNA polymerase and the promoter do?

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Cause a section of DNA double helix to open.

24
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After opening the double helix of DNA what does RNA polymerase do?

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Helps with complementary pairing of the RNA nucleotides to the DNA nucleotides.

25
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What is an intron?

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Intragene segments that will be cut off/eliminated. Parts that wont become ultimate mRNA.

26
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What is an exon?

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RNA nucleotides that remain and will be expressed. It is necessary to splice the exon parts together after introns are removed.

27
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Describe the structure of the mRNA.

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Cap at one end, Poly A tail at the other.

28
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Describe tRNA.

A

Produced in the nucleus from DNA. 3 of the nucleotides are the anticodon. Specific tRNA types link with a specific amino acid.

29
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What do tRNA’s do with the amino acids?

A

Bring them to ribosomes to make proteins.

30
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Describe rRNA.

A

Produced in the nucleolus of nucleus, use section of DNA located there to make a strand. Goes to the cytoplasm and combines with proteins and other rRNA molecules.

31
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What makes a ribosome?

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Many proteins and several rRNA strands combination.

32
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What is the structure of a ribosome?

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Large and small subunit.

33
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What does the combination of rRNA and proteins provide for ribosome?

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A site for mRNA to go and conduct protein synthesis.

34
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How does mRNA feed through the ribosome?

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A channel. It also makes it possible for mRNA and tRNA to meet.

35
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Briefly, what is translation?

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When the mRNA is read by every 3 nucleotides when going through ribosome.

36
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What does the sequence of nucleotides on mRNA determine?

A

Amino acid sequence.

37
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What is a codon?

A

The triplet code.

38
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What is initiation?

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When translation components come together.

39
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What is always the first codon on mRNA?

A

AUG.

40
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What does the first tRNA bind to?

A

Large subunit of ribosome.

41
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What happens after first binding of tRNA?

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Second tRNA comes with its matching anticodon and associated amino acid.

42
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What does the start amino acid do?

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Makes a peptide bond with second amino acid.

43
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Why does a peptide bond occur during protein synthesis?

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Because large subunit is a catalytic site.

44
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What happens after peptide bond formation between 2 amino acids?

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First, tRNA now released, mRNA moves forward… next codon of mRNA waits to match corresponding anticodon of tRNA and associated amino acid.

45
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3rd part of protein synthesis?

A

Peptide bond between 2nd and 3rd amino acid. tRNA of 2nd amino acid released and mRNA moves forward. Creates a peptide chain or protein and process continues until a stop codon is reached.

46
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What does elongation have to do with?

A

The process of building up polypeptide chain one amino acid at a time.

47
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What happens after stop codon?

A

Peptide chain is released into cytoplasm.

48
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What happens after protein synthesis is over?

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Polypeptide goes off and assumes 3D shape in cytoplasm and mRNA is released. Ribosomal subunits then disassociate.

49
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What is a gene mutation?

A

A permanent change in the sequence of bases in DNA. The effect can range from none to complete inactivity of the protein.

50
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What can mutations lead to?

A

Cancer.

51
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What are mutagens?

A

Environmental influences that can cause mutations.

52
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What is a transposon?

A

Jumping genes; specific DNA sequences that move within and between chromosomes.

53
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What are point mutations?

A

Involve a change in a single DNA nucleotide.

54
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What are possible outcomes of point mutations?

A

May cause change in specific amino acid,
May have no effect at all
May produce an abnormal and/or incomplete protein.

55
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What is a frameshift mutation?

A

One or more nucleotides are either inserted or deleted from DNA.

56
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What are some outcomes of a frameshift mutation?

A

Cause a premature stop codon
Result in a non-sense codon sequence
It becomes an incomplete/non-functional protein.

57
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Describe characteristics of cancer cells.

A

Cancer cells are genetically unstable.

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