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Exam 2- Intro To Nucleic Acids Flashcards

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Name 5 nitrogenous bases

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Purines- Adenine and Guanine

Pyrimidine- Cytosine, Thymine, and Uracil (in RNA)

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What are purines and pyrimidines?

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Purines- Pyrimidine ring attached to an imidazole ring

Pyrimidines- Pyrimidine ring

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What are the two types of carbohydrates (sugars) that are found in Nucleic acids?

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2’ deoxy ribose (in DNA)

Ribose (in RNA)

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Nucleoside vs nucleotide

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Nucleosides: a nitrogenous base attached to a carbohydrate unit
Nucleotides: nucleosides attached to a phosphate

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In a nucleotide, indicate the glycosidic, ester, and anhydride bonds

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Glycosidic bond: nitrogen-carbon covalent bond between nitrogenous base and sugar

  • in purine, 9’ nitrogen to 1’ carbon
  • in Pyrimidine, 1’ nitrogen to 1’ carbon on sugar

Ester bond: carbon on sugar attached to O on phosphate

Anhydride bond: phosphate to oxygen

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Describe double helical structure of DNA

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  • DNA strands have distinct polarity in the direction of 5’ to 3’
  • double helical structure that is held together by noncovalent hydrogen bonds
  • A double bonded to T
  • G triple bonded to C
  • the strands are complimentary and anti-parallel to each other
  • DNA backbone is held together by phosphodiester bonds
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Each nucleotide in a DNA strand is linked together by a _________ bond.

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Phosphodiester bond

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Two anti-parallel DNA strands are held together by __________ bonds

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Hydrogen bonds

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Describe the major components of a typical prokaryotic and eukaryotic gene.

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Eukaryotic:

  • Exon: codes correspondingly to the useful part of the mRNA
  • Intron: spliced out during post-transcription from the corresponding pre-mRNA
  • Promoters: part of the gene that binds to transcription related proteins (transcription factors) that promote transcription
  • Enhancers: regions of the DNA (generally located upstream to the promoters or anywhere in the gene) that binds to the TF’s and enhances transcription

Prokaryotic:

  • Circular genome that is practically devoid of proteins (naked DNA)
  • in addition to chromosomal DNA bacteria also have small circular DNA molecules called plasmids which can be transferred from one bacterium to another
  • plasmids can confer antibiotic resistance proteins/enzymes
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How many genes in humans?

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23,000 genes

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Describe nucleosome structure

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Nucleosome- A single packaging unit of chromatin

In a nucleosome, negatively charged DNA molecule (~147 bp sequence) wraps around basic proteins (rich in arginine and lysine) called histones

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What are histones?

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A. Histones- basic proteins rich in arginine and lysine
B. There are several types of histone proteins called H-1, H2-A, H2-B, H-3, and H-4
C. Then core structure is composed of two each of H2A, H2B, H3, and H4
D. The linker DNA region that connects two adjacent nucleosome core is composed of H1

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Name common mechanisms by which histones are post-translationally modified.

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  • Methylation of lysines and arginines
  • N-acetylation of lysine
  • Phosphorylation of serines
  • Small ubiquitous like modification (SUMOylation) of lysine patterns of nucleosomes
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Name different parts of the chromosome.

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Chromosome: naked DNA are packaged into nucleosomes. Several nucleosomes are packaged further to form macromolecular structures called nucleofilaments, which further interact with proteins called scaffold proteins to form higher order macromolecular structures

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Differences between DNA and RNA?

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RNA is single stranded, Uracil in place of thymine, ribose sugar

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Central theme of molecular biology.

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  • Transcription: DNA is transcribed into single stranded RNA catalyzed by RNA polymerase.
    There are 3 types of RNA:
    1. Messenger RNA- mRNA codes for proteins
    2. Ribosomal RNA- rRNA constitutes part of the ribosome structure
    3. Translational RNA- tRNA serves as the adapter molecule during translation
  • Translation: refers to the process of protein synthesis. The mRNA is translated to synthesize unique proteins.
17
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Describe the various types of RNA involved in protein synthesis and their functions.

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  • Messenger RNA- mRNA codes for proteins
  • Ribosomal RNA- rRNA constitutes part of the ribosome structure
  • Translation RNA- tRNA serves as the adapter molecule during translation
18
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What are chromatins?

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Eukaryotic DNA is packaged with histones to create a higher order structure called chromatin

19
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Describe euchromatin and heterochromatin

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Euchromatin: structurally loose and transcriptionally active
- For example, interphase nucleus

Heterochromatin: structurally compact and transcriptionally inactive
- For example, mitotic nucleus

20
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True or false: on a DNA strand the very end of the molecule (ie 3’ end) most of the time it would contain phosphate

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True

21
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True or False: metaphase chromosome is mostly heterochromatic in nature

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True

22
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Approximately how many protein coding genes are present in E. Coli?

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5,000 genes

23
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Penicillin is a Lactam that can be broken down to inactive metabolite by class of enzymes called Beta-lactamases. The genes for beta-lactamases are most often contained in ___________ DNA.

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Plasmid

24
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Antibiotic resistance can be transferred from one bacterium to another through ____________ DNA.

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Plasmid

25
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Describe different types of non-coding RNA’s and its role in growth and development

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Control of the gene expression during the course of development, spatial differences, etc

  • micro RNA (MiRNA)
  • small nuclear RNA (snRNA)
  • medium and large non-coding RNA (lnRNA)
26
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Describe the epigenetic mechanisms that can cause CA and age related neurodegenerative diseases

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Aside from single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP’s), DNA and Histones methylation can affect epigenetic factors
Individual genome sequences and epigenetic methylomes can help formulate personalized medicine

27
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Describe how complexity can be achieved with just 23,000 genes in humans?

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Main differences come about not based on total number of genes present, but how we used these genes

Differential expressions of sets of genes according to topology, temporality, and developmental/morphogenetic differences

28
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Describe the mitochondrial genome

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Circular mitochondrial genome

Composed of 37 genes

The transcriptional and translational machinery of mitochondrial genome is very close to that of bacteria

29
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If you experience clinical side effects from bacterial protein synthesis inhibitors, often times it is due to the ___________

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Mitochondrial DNA

30
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Name few transcriptional and translational inhibitors of bacteria

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These are all antibiotics

Transcription:
Rifampicin: specific to beta-subunit of prokaryotic RNA polymerase

Translation:
Streptomycin, tetracycline, and erythromycin

31
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Chemically RNA is unstable relative to DNA, why?

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The hydroxyl group on ribose makes RNA less stable than DNA because it is more prone to hydrolysis and degradation

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