DNA Flashcards
What are alleles?
Alleles are 2 copies of a gene. One from the mother and the other from the father.
What is genome?
The complete set of genes in an organism
What are genes?
genes are a set of instructions that determine the traits of the organism
How many bases per turn in DNA.
10
What is the compostition of DNA
- Bases (ATCG)
- Sugar
- Phosphate
what are the examples of purine?
Adenine & Guanine
What are the examples of pyrimidines?
Thymine, Uracil & Cytosine
How many carbon rings does purine have?
2
How many carbon rings does pyrimidines have?
1
what bonds connect sugars and phosphate?
phosphodiester bond
When does DNA replication occur during cell cycle?
interphase
What is needed for DNA replication?
- DeoxyriboNucleosideTriPhosphate (dNTP)
- dATP, dTTP, dGTP, dCTP - Energy
- ATP - Enzymes and proteins
- DNA polymerase, Helicase, SSBP (single-stranded DNA binding proteins), Gyrase/Topoisomerase, Primase, Ligase - Template DNA
What is the function of DNA helicase?
unwinds the DNA into single strands.
What is the function of topoisomerase/gyrase?
Topoisomerase/Gyrase creates nicks in DNA ahead of the replication fork to relax the supercoiling induced by helicase activity.
What is the leading strand?
leading strand builds in the same direction as helicase