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Genome Structure Flashcards

1
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What is DNA?

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→ Deoxyribonucleic acid

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2
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In what direction does DNA run?

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→ 5’ to 3’

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3
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How are the bases bound to each other?

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→ Hydrogen bonds

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4
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How do the two strands run in double stranded DNA?

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→ antiparallel

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5
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What are the grooves in 3D DNA?

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→ Major

→ Minor

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6
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What are the bases like in 3D DNA?

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→ Stacked

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7
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How much DNA is in a nucleated cell?

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→ 2m

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8
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How wide is the average cell?

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→ 50 micrometers

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9
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What are the 6 levels of DNA packing?

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→ DNA helix
→ Nucleosomes
→ Chromatin Fibres
→ Chromatin loops
→ Loops of condensed chromatin
→ Chromosome
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10
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What are histones?

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→ basic proteins that bind DNA

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11
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How many histones form the nucleosome?

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→ 8

→ 2A, 2B, 3, 4

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12
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What histone binds Linker DNA?

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→ Histone 1

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13
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What is linker DNA?

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→ piece of DNA that is between nucleosomes

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14
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What is an acrocentric chromosome?

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→ They don’t have the short arms

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15
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What does the primary DNA sequence encode?

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→ All the gene products necessary for an organism

→ Regulatory signals

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16
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What is the exome?

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→ Sum of all the gene sequences

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17
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What do the two definitions of the exome include?

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→ Coding sequences

→ whole gene sequences

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18
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What is a gene?

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→ All of the DNA that is transcribed into RNA

→ All control regions

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19
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What is the size of the human genome?

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→ Upto 2 Giga base pairs

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20
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What % of the DNA is genes?

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→ Less than 2%

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21
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What is the general trend linking genes and organism complexity?

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→ The more genes the more complex

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22
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Why does the number of genes not necessarily correlate to complexity?

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→ A marbled lungfish has 130Gbp

→ Paris Japonica (flower) has 149Gbp ( biggest genome)

23
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What is an example of gene size variation?

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→ globin gene 1.8kb

→ dystrophin gene 2.4mb

24
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What do intergenic regions or pseudogenes contain?

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→ Remnants of retroviruses

25
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How do genes often cluster and give an example?

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→ In families

→ Globin clusters

26
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What does gene clustering allow for?

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→ Co-ordinate gene regulation

→ Reflect evolutionary history

27
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What is the transcription unit divided into?

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→ Exons

→ Introns

28
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Where are introns found?

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→ Between exons

29
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What does the promoter do?

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→ Recruits RNA polymerase to a DNA template

30
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How does RNA polymerase bind and in what direction does it go?

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→ Asymmetrically

→ 5’ to 3’

31
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What are 2 regulatory signals?

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→ CAAT

→ TATA

32
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What are the 5 components of a gene?

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→ exons and introns
→ regulatory signals CAAT and TATA
→ Signals that allow to start transcription and translation
→ Signals to stop transcription and translation
→ 3’ and 5’ UTR

33
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What is the TATA box for?

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→ recruit general transcription factors and RNA polymerase

34
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How many polymerases are there in eukaryotes and what are they?

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→RNA pol I
→ RNA pol II
→ RNA pol III

35
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What are the RNA polymerases for in eukaryotes?

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→ RNA pol I → transcribe rRNA genes
→ RNA pol II → transcribe mRNA
→ RNA pol III → Transcribe tRNA and other small RNAs

36
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What do co-factors do?

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→ Regulate how much and when transcription is occurring

37
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What are the steps for transcription?

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1) RNA polymerase is recruited (closed)
2) DNA helix is locally unwound (open)
3) RNA synthesis begins
4) Elongation
5) Termination
6) RNA polymerase dissociates

38
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What do some introns contain?

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→ Other genes

39
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What are enhancers?

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→ Short sequences that can be in the gene
→ or many Kb distant
→ Targets for transcription factors that activate expression

40
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What do enhancers do?

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→ upregulate gene expression

41
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What are silencers?

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→ Targets for transcription factors (repressors)

→ position independent

42
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What do silencers do?

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→ Downregulate gene expression

43
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What are insulators?

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→ Short sequences that act to prevent enhancers/silencers influencing other genes

44
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How is eukaryotic mRNA modified after transcription?

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→ Capped at 5’ end
→ Polyadenylated at 3’ end
→ Introns are removed

45
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When is the 5’ cap added?

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→ After RNA polymerase begins transcription

46
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What are the two termination signals?

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→ AAUAAA

→ G/U rich region

47
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What happens when the termination signal is reached?

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→ G/U rich region and everything after it is removed

→polyadenylate polymerase adds lots of As to the end of the sequence

48
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Why is polyadenylation required?

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→ Protects the end from degradation and targets it to leave the nucleus

49
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How does splicing work?

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→ Protein complex called a spliceosome
→ brings the ends of the exons together and removes the intron inbetween
→ joins exons together
→ Lariat is degraded

50
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What is alternative splicing?

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→ Exons can be skipped or added so variations of proteins (isoforms) can be made from the same gene

51
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What targets mRNA for nuclear export?

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→ TREX is bound to the cap

→ It is enhanced by the exon junction complex

52
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What are pseudogenes?

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→ Genes that have been at least partially inactivated by loss or gain of sequence that disrupt their transcription or translation

53
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What is an example of a pseudogene?

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→ glucocerebrosidase has an adjacent pseudogene

→ it differs in the coding region by one 55bp deletion

54
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How are pseudogenes copied from mRNA?

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→ retrotransposition

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