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1
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What is genetics?

A

The study of genes and inheritance

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What is a genome?

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All the chromosomes and DNA sequences in an organism

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What is heredity?

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Biological similarities between parent and offspring based on genetic information

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What is a genotype?

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The specific set of genetic information inherited by an organism

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What is a phenotype?

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The expressed characteristics based on the genetic information

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What is genetic variation?

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The changes in the genotype that changes the phenotype

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What is transformation?

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The uptake of foreign DNA from the environment into a cell

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8
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What are bacteriophages?

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A virus made up of a protein coat and DNA. They inject their DNA into a bacterial cell and turn it into a virus factory

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9
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What are prototrophs?

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Strains with functional pathways and can grow on minimal media

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What are auxotrophs?

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Strains that are mutated in a pathway and are unable to grow on minimal media

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11
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What is a gene?

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A unit of heredity that is transcribed into RNA

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What are non-coding sequences?

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Promotor regions, untranslated regions, terminator sequences, regulatory sequences, stuff that isn’t encoding an amino acid in a protein

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13
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What is the promotor region?

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Signals beginning of transcription

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14
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What is the terminator region?

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Signals the end of transcription

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What are regulatory sequences?

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A sequence that is recognized by regulatory proteins that turn transcription on or off

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16
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What is the start codon for translation?

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ATG in DNA and AUG in RNA. Is a methionine

17
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What is transcription?

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The process of DNA being copied into a strand of mRNA

18
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What is translation?

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The process of RNA being turned into a polypeptide chain of amino acids by ribosomes

19
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What are introns?

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Sequences in a gene that aren’t translated and are removed by splicing

20
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What are the 3 stop codons for translation?

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UAA, UAG, or UGA

21
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What is the reading frame?

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How the translation mechanism groups the mRNA nucleotides into codons

22
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How do we know that the reading frame is non-overlapping?

A

A mutation in a single nucleotide only affects one amino acid

23
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What determines the reading frame?

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The position of the start codon

Principles of Genetics (20 decks)

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