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what were the experimental organisms that enabled scientists to learn about DNA?

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bacteria and viruses

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what did Griffith work with in 1928?

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bacteria that causes pneumonia

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what 2 strains did Griffith work with?

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S (smooth) Strain - encased in a capsule and pathogenic

R (rough) Strain - lacked a capsule and could be destroyed by the host’s immune/lymphatic system

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What happened in the experiment where heat killed S cells were mixed with R cells?

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DNA from the heat killed S was picked up by the living R and they “transformed” into pathogenic S cells

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what did Griffith’s experiment show?

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transformation - when DNA from one source assimilates into another source, causing a change/ “transformation” in genotype and phenotype

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who was the first to suggest that DNA was the agent being transferred between bacteria cells?

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Oswald Avery

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what did most scientists think were the agents?

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proteins

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what are phages?

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viruses that infect bacteria

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who proved that it was DNA and not proteins that were responsible for transferring genetic info ? through what work?

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Hershey and Chase; through their work with bacteriophages

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what are bacteriophages?

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viruses that infect bacteria

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at minimum, what is a virus?

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DNA/RNA in a protein coat called a capsid

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protein contain what elements?

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CHON

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what is different between proteins and DNA?

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protein - S
DNA -P

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what did batch 1 have?

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radioactive S (protein)

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what did batch 2 have?

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radioactive P (DNA)

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what was incorporated in T2 bacteriophages that infect E coli bacteria?

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2 different radioactive tags - S and P

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what was the result of Hershey and Chase’s experiment?

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P appeared in E coli and S didnt, so DNA was being transferred

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who noticed the percentages of A,T,C,G in DNA?

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Chargaff
A and T ~ 30%
C and G ~ 20%

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A=T and C=G equalities are known as

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Chargaff’s Rule

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the race to discover DNA’s true shape was won by?

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Watson and Crick
(Maurice Wilkins also won Nobel Prize)

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how was DNA’s shape found?

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Rosalind Franklin took X-ray crystallography images taken, and Watson and Crick saw that it was a double helix

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the correct model of DNA consists of

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sugars (deoxyribose) and phosphates along the sides of the ladder and the N bases along the rungs

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bonds between phosphate group and sugar?

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covalent phosphodiester

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bonds between complementary n bases?

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H bonds

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bonds bw non complementary n bases?
Van der Waals
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how many bonds bw adenine and thymine?
2
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how many bonds bw cytosine and guanine?
3
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what needs to happen before DNA copies itself?
H bonds bw the nitrogen bases must be broken first
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what does a template (old) strand act as?
acts as a guide for the formation of a new complementary strand
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what happens in DNA replication?
nucleotides - simple sugar deoxyribose, phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base- line up along the template strand according to base pairing rules
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where are the two old strands located in replication?
outside
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where are the two new stands located in replication?
inside
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when a double helix duplicates, what is the resulting daughter molecules?
2 new helices, with one new and one old- semiconservative model
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why was DNA replication first studied in E coli?
they have a single circular chromosome called the nucleoid (5 million base pairs) and can undergo DNA replication in less than an hour
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how is DNA replication in humans?
46 chromosomes - 6 billion base pairs takes a few hours to replicate and divide
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how much is known about DNA replication in prokaryotes than eukaryotes?
a lot more is known
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in prokaryotes, where does DNA replication begin?
origin of replication and it proceeds in both directions along the circular DNA molecule until entire molecule is copied
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how is DNA replication in eukaryotes?
linear and there are 100-1000's of origins of replications
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why do eukaryotes have many origins of replciation?
increase speed of copying very long DNA strands
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the opening of 2 strands of DNA does what?
creates bubbles that eventually fuse together forming 2 daughter DNA strands
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what is the point where bubbles formed called?
replication fork
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who adds nucleotides to the DNA strand?
DNA polymerase
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where does the energy to add nucleotide come from?
nucleoside triphosphate- nucleotides but with 3 phosphate groups instead of 1
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how does nucleoside triphosphate provide energy?
very negatively charged and unstable, which accounts for the exergonic energy involved to drive reactions
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what is the structure of 2 DNA strands?
antiparallel
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what does antiparallel mean in terms of DNA?
their sugar-phosphate backbones run in opposite directions
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5' end
phosphate group
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3' end
hydroxyl group
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with DNA replication, in which direction does the growing strand grow?
5' to 3'
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when DNA molecule opens up for replication, which what direction does it grow off from?
3' to 5' from the template strand
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which direction does the daughter strand always grow in?
5 to 3
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leading strand
complementary strand of new DNA
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overall direction of the DNA replication in replication forks opening left?
towards the left
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creating fragments in 5' to 3' direction
backstitching
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lagging strand
DNA polymerase builds new DNA in 5 to 3 direction, and in a direction opposite to the leading strand and in short segments
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short segments of DNA in lagging starnd
Okazaki fragments
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how are Okazaki fragments linked?
enzyme DNA ligase
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in a bubble, what are the leading and lagging strands?
leading strand - top left, bottom right lagging strand - top right, bottom left
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all replication bubbles fuse to form...
two new strands of DNA on the inside
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which enzyme adds nucleotides before DNA polymerase?
primase
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in what direction does primase add nucleotides?
5' to 3'
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are the nucleotides added by primase DNA or RNA?
RNA
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what is the resulting RNA fragment added by primase called?
RNA primer
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which enzyme replaces RNA primer?
2nd diff DNA polymerase (I)
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what is the first step of DNA replication?
DNA helicase breaks the H bonds to unzip and unwind the double helix
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what happens after DNA unwinds due to helicase?
single strand binding proteins hold open the unwound DNA molecule
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what does topoisomerase do?
helps relieve tension created by unwinding DNA
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what does primase do after SSBP attach?
arrives to prime/start building the daughter strand, adding about 10 RNA nucleotides in a 5' to 3' direction
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what happens once RNA nucleotides are added?
DNA polymerase (III) adds complementary DNA nucleotides DNA polymerase (I) replaces RNA primer with DNA
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last enzyme involved in DNA replication
DNA ligase links Okazaki fragments in lagging strand
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how rare are errors in matching base pairs?
one error per billion
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what proofreads mistakes that are made in DNA replication?
DNA polymerase it immediately replaces a nucleotide if the wrong one is added and resumes replication
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what causes mutations to existing DNA?
chemicals, radioactivity, UV light, X rays
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what correct damaged DNA?
repair enzymes
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what does nuclease do?
cuts out damaged DNA segment and DNA polymerase fills the gap and DNA ligase seals it up
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what enzymes replace the last fragment of the DNA molecule?
no enzymes can do that
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since last fragment of DNA is not replaced, what happens after repeated replication?
shorter and shorter DNA molecules are produced
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what solves the problem or DNA molecules getting shorter?
eukaryotes have telomeres on the ends of their DNA
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telomeres?
segments at the end of a DNA molecule that do not contain genes, so therefore do not make proteins
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what sequence are telomeres?
TTAGGG
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what do telomeres protect?
the organism's genes/DNA from being eroded away through successive rounds of DNA replication
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because of telomeres, how are our genes that code for traits?
unaffected until we're older as the telomeres shorten instead
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what does enzyme telomerase do?
helps lengthen the telomere ends
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where is telomerase present?
in germ line cells that form eggs andsperm
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what are scientists questioning about the relationship between life span and telomeres?
if an organism's life span is limited by the length of telomeres
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what is the downfall of adding telomerase to somatic cells?
increases risk of cancer

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