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Chromatin, Operons, & DNA Replication Flashcards

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progeria: interruption with

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nuclear lamina

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we know about proteins due to the … that occur with them

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proteins

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heterochromatin is a … version of chromatin

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densely packed

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heterochromatin leads to … of genes by inhibiting … at these locations, prevents access of … necessary for transcription

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inactivation; transcription; enzymes

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euchromatin are … chromatin –> … occurs in these regions

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loosely packed; transcription

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chromatin consists of … and .., namely DNA wrapped around … to form … that are held together either as “… on a …” (…) or as a structure of … in width (…)

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DNA; proteins; histones; nucleosomes; beads; string; euchromatin; 30 nm; heterochromatin

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about .. base pairs of DNA wrap around complexes of … histones, composed of … of each of the four different types: …, …., …, …

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150; 8; two; H2A; H2B; H3; H4

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Nucleosomes are joined together by way of

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linker DNA

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chromosomes are formed during …, when the cell is undergoing …

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mitosis; cellular division

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in …, chromatin begin to condense, which is when the chromosome becomes visible. During …, in which the cell is not dividing, the chromatin is in its … state, allowing for … to occur

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prophase; interphase; least condensed; transcription

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modification of the … regulates gene expression

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histone tail

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…. of the histone (addition of an … group) … the coils

…. (addition of a … group) … the coils

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acetylation; acetyl; loosens; methylation; methyl; tightens

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…. reduces the space needed for DNA within the cell. It reduces the … on the molecule by allowing it to … around itself. It can also regulate …

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supercoiling; helical stress; twist; transcription

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positive supercoiling: DNA is … –> …-handed twisting of the DNA
negative supercoiling: DNA is … (most DNA like this) –> …-handed twisting of the DNA, makes it easier to … the DNA strands

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overwound; left; underwound; right; separate

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epigenome refers to the … that regulate gene expression (e.g. …, …, etc.)
can be influenced by … factors

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chemical compounds/modifications; DNA methylation; histone methylation; environmental

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operon –> grouping of

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genes

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prokaryotes have to control which genes will be expressed, based on the … that they are in

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environment

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E.coli cells in environment with glucose, maltose and lactose would select … first in their metabolic genes, breaking it down by way of … (which involves … enzymes, leading to a net yield of … ATP). They would then select either maltose or lactose, building the enzymes responsible for breaking them down.

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glucose; glycolysis; 9; 2

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repressor proteins sit on top of …. and block …

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gene segment; transcription

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glucose is the …, … energy source

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preferred; universal

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operons are named after their … (what they act on)

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substrate

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lac operon –> used for …. –> …, inducer is … (…)

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lactose; inducible; lactose; allolactose

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permease enzyme allows lactose to …, and beta galactosidase … to glucose and galactose

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enter the cell; hydrolyzes lactose

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trp operon is used for … (an ….) –> …, tryptophan is the …

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tryptophan; amino acid; repressible; repressor

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prokaryotes make tryptophan and don’t need to … it BUT if it is in solution/agar that they are plated on, they don’t make it so that they don’t waste …, …, etc –> gene segment for tryptophan would be …

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consume it; energy; resources; turned off

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operons allow for prokaryotes to

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regulate gene expression

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(differences between trp and lac operon) trp operon leads to an … pathway whereas lac operon leads to a … pathway

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anabolic; catabolic

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(differences between trp and lac operon) lac is … whereas trp is ….

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inducible; repressible

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(differences between trp and lac operon) lac is controlled by the abundance of the … whereas trp is not dependent on the conditions of the …, although it can be repressed by these conditions

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substrate; environment

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(differences between trp and lac operon) trp is deactivated by the presence of … whereas lac is activated by the presence of …

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tryptophan; lactose

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(differences between trp and lac operon) the trp repressor is …, whereas lac is … Also, the trp repressor cannot bind to the …, but the lac repressor can

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inactive; active; operator region

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generating permeases leads to more …, more lactose in less …

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efficiency; time

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interaction between … and … regulates gene expression

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repressor; inducer

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regions of operon (gene segments): 
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operator; repressor; promoter; regulatory region

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repressor sits on top of the

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operator

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the lactose repressor … after the binding of lactose, preventing the repressor– the … gene — from binding to the …. This allows … to attach to the …, which has been exposed by the binding of a … complex to a … binding site such that the … can fully bind to it. Transcription follows, by which enzymes necessary for lactose metabolism are produced

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changes shape; regulatory; operator; RNA polymerase; promoter; CAP; CAP; RNA polymerase;

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DNA replication occurs in three steps: …, …., and …

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unwinding; complementary base pairing; joining

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unwinding is the process by which the parental strands, also known as the … strands, are separated by way of a …

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template; helicase enzyme

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the point at which helicase begins separating the strands is known as the … At this point, helicase begins breaking the … between the .., forming two … – the two exposed strands of DNA that will undergo base pairing–which constitute a … that will grow as replication proceeds

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origin of replication; hydrogen bonds; base pairs; replication forks; replication bubble

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… stabilize the separated strands to ensure that the hydrogen bonds will not reform between the base pairs

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single stranded binding proteins

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before complementary base pairing can occur, …, an …., generates an … at the origin of replication because DNA polymerase can only attach new nucleotides to an … of nucleotides

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primase; RNA polymerase; RNA primer; existing strand

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Free nucleotides that were produced and stored in the cell prior to replication are then paired with nucleotides on the parental strands by way of …

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DNA polymerase

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the parental strands that are part of the fork ran … to one another, and the new strands being formed must also be … to the template strands

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antiparallel; antiparallel

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replication must occur in the … to .. direction, as nucleotides can only be added to the … group at the … end of the chain. This requirement leads to the formation of the … and … strands

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5’; 3’; -OH; 3’; leading; lagging

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the parental strand that is in the 3’ to 5’ direction is termed the … strand, and the parental strand that is in the 5’ to 3’ direction is termed the … strand

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leading; lagging

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replication in the leading strand occurs in the … direction that the fork is moving, while replication in the lagging strand occurs in the … direction that the fork is moving.

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same; opposite

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the lagging strand is replicated in segments called …. due to the fact that DNA polymerase must stop and restart due to the … of synthesis

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Okazaki fragments; direction

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the strands are … to ensure that no mistakes are made and … are removed by DNA polymerase and replaced with …

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proofread; RNA primers; DNA nucelotides

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… then joins the fragments to form the … molecules that are comprised of one parental and one new strand

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DNA ligase; daughter DNA

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Both prokaryotes and eukaryotes exhibit … replication, but some prokaryotes can exhibit … replication

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bidirectional; unidirectional

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in prokaryotes, there is …. point of origin, but in eukaryotes replication occurs at many different ….

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only one; replication bubbles

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… is the site of replication in prokaryotes. … is the site of replication in eukaryotes

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cytoplasm; the nucleus

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eukaryotes have … types of DNA polymerase, whereas prokaryotes have … types of DNA polymerases, but eukaryotic polymerases work … than prokaryotic polymerases

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4; 2; slower

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prokaryotes have only … site of termination, while eukaryotes have .. than one site of termination. Eukaryotes also face the problem of having some DNA that does not get …, which is solved by the presence of …–non-coding, repetitive sequences of DNA

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one; more than one; replicated; telomeres

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