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Genetics Flashcards

1
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Inheritance of duchenne muscular dystrophy

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X-linked recessive (mostly)

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anticipation (genetics)

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a genetic disorder is passed on to the next generation, the symptoms of the genetic disorder become apparent at an earlier age with each generation.

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uniparental disomy

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when a person receives two copies of a chromosome, or of part of a chromosome, from one parent and no copy from the other parent

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what is p and q on a chromosome?

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p is the small arm and q is the larger one

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what is the difference between chromosome and chromatid

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chromosome includes the whole thing when it undergoes mitosis but the there are 2 chromatids

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cell cycle

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Interphase (cells spends majority of time interphase):

  1. G1
    1. Making more organelles, mRNA, histones, increasing the volume of the cytoplasm
  2. S
    1. Chromosome duplication
  3. G2
    1. Cell with duplicated chromosomes

MItosis

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What happens at metaphase in mitosis

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The chromosomes are attached to the spindle fibres and lined up (46 chromosomes but 92 chromatids)

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What is a tetra in meiosis

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the homologous chromosomes from the mother and father that line up

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What are the difference between bases in DNA vs RNA

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DNA is guanin,e cytosine, adening, thymine

RNA is guanine, cytosine, adenine, uracil

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10
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Which direction is DNA synthesised

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5’ to 3’

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What bases are purine and what are pyrimadine

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Pyrimadine = C, T, U

Purine = A, G

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what are the 2 strands in DNA and which one is copied to mRNA?

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Coding and template

The template strand is copied to make the mRNA version of the coding DNA strand

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How is pre-mRNA modified to make mRNA?

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  1. Capping - protects mRNA from degradation and ais in ribosome binding during translation
  2. poly (A) tail (made by polyA polyerase) - initiates translation
  3. Splicing (of the introns)
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Role of microRNA

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To regulate protein production

When the RNA precursor folds upon itself and is chopped up by a dicer and joins onto a protein complex

Binds onto target mRNA to either degrade mRNA or blockage translation

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15
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What is redundancy?

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That there are more combinations of codons than amino acids

(including 3 stop codons)

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16
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In redundancy, what position of nucleotide is normally different? (but still coding for the same AA)

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The 3rd nucleoside

17
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What is the mechanism of trinucleotide repeat

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Slipped-strand mispairing

18
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  1. What is a missense mutation?
  2. What is a nonsense mutation?
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  1. Missense
    1. A substitution in 1 DNA base pair that change the codon for 1 amino acid into another
  2. Nonsense
    1. When the DNA base change results in a stop codon - depends on where in the AA the codon is
19
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What is epistasis (genetics)

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When 1 gene affects the expression of another gene (e.g. albinism)

20
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What happens when an oncoene is translocated next to an immunoglobulin heavy or light chain or T-cell receptor gene?

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The T-cell receptor/Ig genes naturally undergo extensive rearrangements so that that oncogene can also undergo unregulated rearrangement and growth

(e.g. the heavy Ig gene is on chromosome 14 and a lot of haematological malignancies involve translocations with chromosome 14)

E.g. Mantle cell lymphoma 11:14 - translocation of the cyclin D gene onto the heavy Ig

21
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What happens when there is Robertsonian translocation

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When chromosomes with very short arms are lost.

Parents are generally not affected but the offsprings can have trisomy/monosomy

22
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What stage of cell division is karyotype done at?

23
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What does comparative genomics hybridization detect?

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  • Smaller regions of DNA along the lengths of all of the chromosomes
  • CNVs
  • Doesn’t detected balanced structural rearangements
24
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What is loss of heterozygosity?

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Loss of 1 allele’s DNA

(e.g. loss of normal gene in mutated cancer susceptibility gene

26
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What is a Barr body?

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An inactivated X chromosome

27
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What is the mechanism of imprinting?

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DNA methylation of the promotor region

28
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What genetic phenomenon can cause haemophilia to manifest in females?

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Skewed X-inactivation

29
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What is the mechanism of uniparental disomy in meiosis?

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Meiosis I - non disjunction

Meiosis 2 - when 2 games with x1 and x2 chromosome fuse, there is trisomy rescue where the 3 chromosomes are reduced to 2 and if the outcome combination are x2 chromosomes from 1 parent OR when there is monosomy rescue

Can unmask imprinting or develop recessive condition

30
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How to calculate the carrier frequency from allele frequency?

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Carrier frequency = 2pq as per the Hardy Weinberg Equation

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