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Genetics Test 3 Flashcards

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DNA A

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Unwinding the helix, initiator protein, binds to ORI causing confirmation change, causes helix to destabilize and open up, exposes ssDNA

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DNA helicase

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Made of DNA B polypeptides, hexamer of subunits, subsequently recruits holoenzyme to bind replication fork and initiate replication, require energy supplies by hydrolysis of ATP-denatures hydrogen binds and stabilizes double helix

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Single stranded binding proteins (SSBP)

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Stabilize the open confirmation of helix, bind specifically to single strands of DNA,

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DNA gyrase

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Relieves coiled tension from unwinding of helix (member of the DNA topoisomerases) slide along ahead of helicase to relieve tension

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Primase: RNA polymerase

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Synthesizes RNA primer, provides 3’-OH required by DNA polymerase III for elongation, (aka build little short segments of RNA, capable of starting with nothing)

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DNA polymerase I

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Removes primer

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RNA priming

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Universal phenomena found in everything with DNA

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Continuous DNA synthesis

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Leading strand

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Discontinuous DNA synthesis

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Lagging strand

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Okazaki fragments

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The chunks of DNA that form from the lagging strand

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DNA ligase

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Catalyzes formation of phosphodiester bonds and seals nicks and joins Okazaki fragments

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DNA clamp

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Prevents core enzyme dissociation from template

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Proofreading

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DNA polymerase exonuclease can go back and correct mistakes (3’-5’)

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Enzymes and proteins that are essential to DNA synthesis

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DNA polymerase III, SSBPs, DNA gyrase, DNA helicase, RNA primers

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Shared features of eukaryotic and Bacterial DNA replication

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Double strand unwound at ORI, replication forks, bidirectional synthesis, requires four triphosphates, primer

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Why is eukaryotic DNA replication more complicated

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More DNA, linear chromosomes, DNA complexes with nucleotides

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Do eukaryotic organisms have one ORI or many?

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Many, speeds up the process

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Autonomously replicating sequences (ARSs)

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120 base pairs of consensus sequence (same sequence in all those places) in yeast

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Prereplication complex (pre-RC)

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Assembles at replication ORIs, early GI phase of cell cycle, for controlled timing of DNA replication

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Does eukaryotic DNA replication have one polymerase or many?

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Many

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Polymerase switching

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Occurs once the primer is in place

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Telomeres

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Inert chromosomal ends that protect intact eukaryotic chromosomes from improper fusion or degradation, long stretches of short repeating sequences preserve the integrity/stability of chromosomes

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Telomerase

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Eukaryotic enzyme, adds repeats of six nucleotide sequence to 3’ end to fill gaps

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Ribonucleoprotein

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RNA serves as template for synthesis of DNA complement (reverse transcriptase)

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Telomerase activity and telomere length linked to….

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Aging, cancer, other diseases

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In most eukaryotic somatic cells telomerase is active or not active?

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Not active

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What cells maintain telomerase activity - immortalized

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Stem cells and malignant cells

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Homologous recombination

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Genetic exchange at equivalent positions along two chromosomes with substantial sequence homology

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Genetic recombination involves:

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Endonuclease nicking, strand displacement and pairing with complement, ligation, branch migration, duplex separation

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Gene conversion

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Consequence of homologous recombination, characterized by nonreciprocal genetic exchange between two DNA molecules

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Bacterial and viral chromosome components

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Single nucleic acid
Largely devoid of associated proteins
Much smaller than eukaryotic

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Bacterial chromosomes

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Circular double stranded DNA compacted into nucleoid

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Supercoiling

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Closed circular molecules, more compact and sediment more rapidly

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Topoisomerase

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Enzymes that cut one or both DNA strands, wind or unwind helix before resealing ends

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Polytene chromosomes

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Represent paired homologs, NOT NORMAL, seen in interphase cells, found in tissues such as salivary, rectal, midgut, fruit flies

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Polytene chromosomes definition

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DNA of paired holologs undergoes many rounds of replication without strand separation or cytoplasmic division

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Puff regions

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Bulges where DNA has uncoiled that are visible manifestations of high level gene activity (transcription that produces RNA)

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Lampbrush chromosomes

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Large with extensive DNA looping, easily isolated from oocytes in diplotene stage or prophase I of meiosis (it’s like a giant puff)

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Chromatin

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At interphase, eukaryotic chromosomes uncoil and decondense into a form called chromatin which is dispersed throughout the nucleus during interphase

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Histones

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Positively charged proteins associated with chromosomal DNA in eukaryotes, five main types

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Nucleosome

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A length of DNA coiled around a core of histones (resembles beads on a string) are condensed several times to form intact chromatids

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Superhelix

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The structure the DNA forms when it makes a nucleosome

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Histone tails

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Not packed into the folded histone domains, allows for remodeling since we can stick things/remove things from the tails

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Acetylation

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Changes the charge if the histone, to make them spread out

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45
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Methylation

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Makes the histones stick together

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Phosphorylation

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Adds phosphate groups

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47
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Euchromatin

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Uncoiled and active, appears unsustained during telophase

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48
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Heterochromatin

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Condensed areas are mostly inactive, appears stained during interphase

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Chromosome banding techniques

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Differential staining along longitudinal axis of mitotic chromosome (resemble polytene chromosome bands)

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C-Banding

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Only centromeres take up stain

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G-banding

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Differential staining along length of each chromosome

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Nomenclature for human chromosome banding

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Based on g banding, nomenclature applied to X chromosome

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Repetitive DNA sequences

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Are repeated many times within eukaryotic chromosomes

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Satellite DNA

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Highly repetitive and consists of short repeated sequences, found in heterochromatic centromeric regions of chromosomes

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Moderately repetitive DNA

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Variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs), minisatelites

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Variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs)

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Repeating DNA sequences 15-100 bp long, found within and between genes

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Micro satellites or STRs (short tandem repeats)

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Tandemly repeated sequence, dispersed throughout genome

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Short interspersed elements (SINES) and long interspersed elements (LINES)

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Transposable sequences that are mobile and can relocate within genome, dispersed not tandemly repeated

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Retrotransposons

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Transposable elements generated via RNA intermediate (LINES)

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Pseudogenes

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Large number of single-copy noncoding regions

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Unambiguous

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Each triplet specifies only one amino acid

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Degenerate

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A given amino acid can be specifies by more than one triplet code

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Start and stop signals

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Triplets that initiate and terminate translation

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Commaless

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Once translation begins the codons move in sets of three, no commas

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Nonoverlapping

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Any single ribonucleotide within mRNA is part of one triplet

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Colinear

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Sequence of codons in a GENE is colinear (genes sequence in DNA matches RNA matches the rest of the strands)

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Nearly universal

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A single coding dictionary is used by viruses, prokaryotes, archaea, and eukaryotes

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mRNA (messenger)

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Serves as intermediate in transferring genetic information from DNA to proteins (carries from DNA to ribosome)

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Triplet code

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Provides 64 codons to specify 20 amino acids

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Reading frame

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Contiguous sequence of nucleotides

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Frameshift mutation

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Insertions or deletions shift reading frame and change codons downstream

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Nonoverlapping

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Genetic code reads three nucleotides at a time in continuous linear manner (during translation genetic code is nonoverlapping)

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What is meant when it is said that the genetic code is degenerate?

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Many amino acids specified by more than one codon (only tryptophan and methionine are encoded by a single codon)

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The wobble hypothesis

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The initial two ribonucleotides of triplet codes are often more critical than the third

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Methionine (AUG) - initiator codon

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Initial amine acid incorporated into all proteins

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Termination codons

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UAG, UAA, UGA, do not code for any amino acid, translation terminates when these codons are encountered

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Nonsense mutations

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Mutations that produce a stop codon internally in gene, translation is terminated and a partial polypeptide is produced

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Phage MS2

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Bacteriophage that infects E. coli

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Mitochondrial DNA exemptions to universal genetic code:

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Codon UGA encodes tryptophan in yeast and humans instead of termination, AUA encodes internal insertion of methionine instead of isoleucine

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Overlapping genes

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Single mRNA has multiple initiation points and creates different reading frames

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ORF open reading frame (overlapping genes)

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DNA sequence produces RNA with start and stop, series of triplet codons specify amino acids to make polypeptide

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Transcription

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RNA synthesized on DNA template

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Promoters

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Specific DNA sequences in 5’ region upstream of initial transcription point

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Consensus sequences

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DNA sequences homologous in different genes of same organism

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Chain elongation

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Ribosomes are added to RNA chain, elongation proceeds under direction of core enzyme

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Termination

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Enzyme transverse entire gene until a termination nucleotide sequence is encountered

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Transcription in eukaryotes

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Occurs within nucleus, mRNA must leave nucleus for translation

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Transcription factors

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Scan/bind DNA, enhancers and silencers

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RNA polymerase 1 makes…

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rRNA in the nucleolus

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RNA polymerase II makes

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mRNA and snRNA in the nucleoplasm

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TATA box

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Core promoter element, determines transcription start site

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Posttranscriptional modifications

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Addition of 5’ cap, addition of 3’ tail, excision of introns

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Introns

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Regions of initial RNA transcript not expresses in amino acid sequence of protein

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Exons

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Sequence retained and expressed

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Splicing

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Introns are removed, exons are joined together in mature mRNA, mature mRNA is smaller than initial RNA

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Self splicing RNAs

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Self excision group I introns occurs in bacteria, lower eukaryotes, and higher in plants

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Spliceosome

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Pre-mRNA introns spliced out by spliceosome, reaction involves formation of lariat structure

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Substitution editing

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Identities of individual nucleotide bases are altered; prevalent in mitochondria and chloroplasts RNA derived in plants

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Insertion/deletion editing

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Nucleotides are added/deleted from total number of bases, prevalent in mitochondrial and chloroplasts RNAs

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tRNAs transfer RNA

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Adapt genetic information present as specific triplet codons in mRNA to corresponding amino acid

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Ribosomes

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Have an essential role in expression of genetic information

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rDNA

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rRNA genes, moderately repetitive DNA fraction present in clusters at various chromosomal sites

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Structure of tRNA

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Cloverleaf

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Anticodon

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tRNA has anticodon that complementarily base pairs with codon in mRNA

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Aminoacylation: tRNA charging

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Before translation can proceed, tRNA molecules must be chemically linked to respective amino acids

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Three steps of translation of mRNA

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Initiation, elongation, termination

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Initiation

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Initiation complex = small robosomal subunit + initiation factors + mRNA at codon AUG

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Initiation factors

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Small and large ribosomal subunits, mRNA molecule, GTP, charged initiator tRNA, Mg2+, imitation factors

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Elongation

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Both ribosomal subunits assembled with mRNA, forms P and A site

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Termination

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Signaled by stop codons in A site

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GTP dependent release factors

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Stimulates hydrolysis of polypeptide from peptidyl tRNA - released from translation complex

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Polysomes or polyribosomes

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mRNAs with several ribosomes translating at once, as mRNA passes through ribosome, it’s free to associate with another small subunit

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Where does transcription occur in eukaryotes?

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Where does translation occur in eukaryotes?

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Kozak sequence

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Eukaryotic mRNAs contain luring (A or G) three bases upstream from AUG initiator codon, followed by a G
(A/NNAUGG

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Translation in eukaryotes requires…

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More factors of initiation, elongation, and termination

117
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Are ribosomes in eukaryotes free floating?

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Not all of them, usually associated with endoplasmic reticulum

118
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Alkaptonuria and phenylketonuria

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Result from mutations that lead to metabolic blocks

119
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Phenylketonuria (PKU)

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Phenylalanine hydroxylase is inactive in affected individuals, phenylalanine is not converted into tyrosine and enters cerebrospinal fluid, causing mental retardation

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One gene:one enzyme hypothesis

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George Beadle showed genes are directly responsible for synthesis of enzymes (purposely exposed neurospora to bad things trying to force mutations, partner was Tatum)

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One gene: one polypeptide chain hypothesis

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Nearly all enzymes are proteins - not all proteins are enzymes, proteins have subunit structure with two or more polypeptide chains

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Sickle cell anemia

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Recessive genetic disease, affected individuals are homozygous for the gene, makes the blood cells pointy and easier to clog passages, heterozygotes are carried but largely unaffected

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Chemical differences between normal and sickle cell hemoglobin

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HbS and HbA hemoglobin differ by single peptide fragment

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Colinearity

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Order of nucleotides in gene correlates directly with order of amino acids in corresponding polypeptide

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Polypeptides

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Precursors to proteins, amino acids assembled on and released from ribosomes as polypeptides

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Proteins

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Polypeptides folded up into a functional three dimensional conformation

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Amino acids

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Add to the diversity of proteins, carboxyl group on one side and amino acid on the other making it positive and negatively charged, and a r group which determines the overall reactivity of the amino acid and type of amino acid

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Peptide bond

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Dehydration reaction facilitates bond between carboxyl group of one amino acid and amino acid group of another

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