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Exam 1 - Chp 3: Genome Structure, Organization, and Variation Flashcards

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1
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How do genetic variation and evolution relate?

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Evolution produces variation and variation causes evolution

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What is the most common cause of evolutionary change in the genome?

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Natural selection

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What is the purpose of polyacrylamid gel electrophoresis?

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Identify protein variation according to size and charge

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What are restriction endonucleases?

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Enzymes that cut specific sequences on DNA

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How can restrictions enzymes (endonucleases) be used to determine if DNA differs?

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If fragments are similar correlates to if the DNA sequences are similar since restriction enzymes target specific sequences

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How is dideoxyribose different from deoxyribose and ribose?

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There is no hydroxyl (OH) group on the 3’ carbon

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What effect does the lack of a hydroxyl (OH) group on the 3’ carbon mean for dideoxynucleotides?

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No other nucleotides can be added to the dideoxynucleotide once it has been adding to a DNA sequence

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What are two benefits to Sanger Sequencing?

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Runs in 20-150 minutes
Can sequence around 700 bases

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What are two cons to Sanger sequencing?

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It is only good for short sequences, like a single gene
The first 1-30 bases sequences are relatively unreliable

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10
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Know what Sanger Sequencing is

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Described on page 13 of “BIOL322_Exam1”

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What are two benefits of Roche 454 sequencing

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Sequences up to 700 bp fragments
Can do 1 billion bases in 3 days

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What are two cons of Roche 454?

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Produces short reads
individual sequence runs are expensive

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What are four pros of Illumina sequencing?

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Sequences up to 20 billion bases in 1-2 days
Sequences using 50-300 base long fragments
Has high yield with low cost per sequence
Sequences multiple fragments at once

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What is massive parallel sequencing/next gen sequencing?

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Sequencing multiple DNA fragments at the same time; Illumina sequencing is an examples

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What are two bonds of Illumina sequencing?

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Upfront costs are more expensive
Requires larger DNA sample

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What is direct sequencing?

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When DNA is cut into specific fragments that are inserted into vectors and the vectors are amplified. Then, inserts are sequenced and the sequence is assembled using fragment overlaps.

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What is shotgun sequencing?

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When DNA is cut into random fragments that are amplified, then sequenced. The, the sequence is assembled using fragment overlaps.

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How does direct sequencing differ from shotgun sequencing?

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The fragments of DNA are larger and specific
Utilizes vectors for application process

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What are reads in terms of analyzing a DNA sequence?

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The short sequences produced by fragments of the DNA that were created during sequencing process

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What are contigs in terms of analyzing a DNA sequence?

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Genes found from overlap in reads

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What are scaffolds in terms of analyzing a DNA sequence?

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Contigs pieced together to form a chromosome

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What are the three key steps of annotation after assembling a genome?

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1) Scan for ORFs
2) Scan upstream of start codon (ATG) to find transcription start site and control regions
3) BLAST (computer program) genes to look for orthologs

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What are orthologs?

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Genes in different species that evolved from a common ancestral gene

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Is genome size correlated with organismal complexity?

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Loosely?

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What are two reasons for keeping unused genes?

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May need to recall it
Less energy to keep than get rid of

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What are pseudogenes?

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a gene that resembles functional genes (was a functional gene) but have inactivating mutations and no function

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What organisms most commonly lose genome size and why?

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Endosymbionts and parasites because they have access to genetic products from their host

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What causes the largest increase in genome size?

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Polyploidization

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What is polyploidy?

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Having multiple copies on a chromosome

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What is horizontal gene transfer?

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Transfer of DNA from one organism to another

31
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What are four causes of genome expansion?

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Horizontal gene transfer
Polyploidization
Gene duplication
Gene family expansion

32
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What are plasmids?

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Small pieces of circular DNA found in prokaryotes?

33
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What is the bacterial genome structure?

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A closed circular DNA molecule known as their chromosome

34
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What is chromatin?

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A complex of nucleosomes and DNA that forms higher order structures to form chromosomes

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What is a nucleosome?

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A complex of 8 positively charged proteins that compromise the nucleosome

36
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What does Histone 1 do?

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It is separate from the 8 histones that make up the nucleosome and works with the nucleosome to regulate chromatin folding

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What is a chromosome?

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Highly condensed chromatin; condenses in metaphase

38
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How many chromosome pairs do humans have? Total chromosomes?

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23; 46

39
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What is the G-banding pattern of the human genome?

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Geisma stain make dense part of chromosome appear darker

40
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What is heterochromatin?

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Chromatin that is densely packed

41
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What is euchromatin?

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Chromatin that is less dense, typically protein coding region

42
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What is endosymbiosis?

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The theory that mitochondria and chloroplast arose from an ancestral eukaryotic cell absorbing/consuming a bacterium

43
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Did the mitochondria or chloroplast come first based on endosymbiosis?

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Mitochondria

44
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What is a telomere?

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A repetitive DNA sequence that caps the end of a chromosome

45
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What is the p-arm of the chromosome?

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The shorter arm

46
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What is the q-arm of a chromosome?

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The longer arm?

47
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What is a centromere?

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where chromosomes attach during metaphase

48
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What are sister chromatids?

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Chromosomes in a pair that are exact copies of one another created by DNA replication

49
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What are homologous chromosomes?

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Two pairs of chromosomes in a diploid organism that has the same structure, size, and gene arrangement, bur different alleles

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What is a locus?

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The location of a gene on a chromosome

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What is a genetic map?

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An atlas of positions of genes in a genome

52
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How do more complex genomes compare in the number of protein coding genes and noncoding protein genes?

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More complex genomes tend to have more protein coder genes, but a higher percentage of their genes are noncoding

53
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In what cells must mutations occur to to be passed down to offspring?

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Germline cells

54
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What are gremlin cells?

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Cells that produce eggs and sperm (gametes)

55
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What are paralogs?

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Genes created via gene duplication with slightly altered functions within the same genome

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What is a base substitution?

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A mutation where a base in the DNA sequence is not what it should have been according to the original sequence

57
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What is a base deletion?

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A base in the sequence is missing → causes a frame shift mutation

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What is a base insertion?

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An extra base is added in the sequence → causes frameshift mutation

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What is copy number variation (CNV)?

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A block of DNA sequence is duplicated and repeated multiple times in a row; very impactful

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What are gene families?

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Similar genes related based on the structure of their protein domain (basically, paralogs)

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What is the primary genetic source of variation between species?

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A base change

62
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In what comparison is gene family diversification see most commonly?

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Comparison of different species

63
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What is redundancy and an example?

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More than one version of the same information; paralogs

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What is robustness and an example?

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Alternate routes/system for same outcome; different molecular pathways to achieve same goal

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What is the C-value paradox?

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States that genome size is not correlated with biological complexity which is untrue and based on outliers

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What is a karyotype?

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An individuals complete set of chromosomes

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