Dna Flashcards
What do nucleic acids do
Store information that controls cellular activity
What di nucleic acids control
Protein synthesis and chemical processes
Where is dna found
Nucleus
Two types of nucleic acid
Deoxyribo nucleic acid
Ribonucleic acid
What does dna form
An important part of the chromosomes that form the chromatin network
What is a gene
Secrions of dna molecules that contain hereditary info
Structure of dna
Doible helix
1 sugar
1 phoshate
1 nitro base
What are the nitro bases
Adenine with thymine
Cytosin with guanine
Which of the nitro bases are pyrimidines
Thymine and cytosine
Which of the nitro bases are purines
Adenine and guanine
What is dnas role
Hereditary information in the form of genes
Coding for protein
to replicate
Coding dna is called what
Exons
Non coding dnas other name and fuctions
Introns and dunctional rna molecules
Why is dna replication important
Make new dna molecule to ensure the genetic code is passed on to each daughter cell
When does dna relication take place
Interphase
How does dna replication take place
1 double helix unwinds,weak hydro break
2 exposed strand =template
3 free nucleotides bond to base pair
=two identical double helix wrap around histone
What is an str
Short tandem repeat
In dna profiling where do the differences occur
The non coding part
What is dna profilling
The extracting if highly variable regions =repeating sequences of base pairs
How mang diffrent site of dna profilling are investigated
13-20
What is a dna profile
An individuals unique dna fragments,seperated by electrophoresis
How does dna profilling occur
Cells treated to extract dna
Restriction enzymes cut begin and end parts
Dna gets amplified
Electrophoresis
Whatbis gel electrophoresis
A method to sepreate latge molecules mainly due to size and electrical charge
Hiw is dna profilling used
Forensics
Didorders
Paternity
What is the strictute of rna
Single stranded
Made of nucleotides
1 sugar 1 base 1 phosphate