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1
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What does DNA stand for?

A

deoxyribonucleic acid

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2
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Define DNA

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like a blueprint of information to make an organism

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3
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How does DNA control activities?

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providing instructions to make proteins

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4
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Nucleotide is made of three smaller units. What are they?

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  • Deoxyribose - a sugar
  • phosphate group
  • one of four nitrogenous bases
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5
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What are the four nitrogenous bases?

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Adenine (A), guanine(G), thymine(T) and cytosine(C)

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6
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Which nitrogenous bases are double ringed?

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adenine and guanine

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7
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Which nitrogenous bases are double ringed?

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thymine and cytosine

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8
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Adenine always pairs with…

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Thymine

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9
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Guanine always pairs with…

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Cytosine

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10
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What are the rings for pairs?

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pairs always include one double ring and one single ring

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A Nucleotide

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the basic building block of nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) - the ACTG

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12
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What happens to DNA during mitosis?

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it is copied and passed onto new cells

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13
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How is DNA described as it runs in opposite directions?

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anti-parallel

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14
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What kind of end do you need to have to add to DNA

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3’

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15
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purines

A

nucleotides with double ringed structures

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16
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Nucleotides can be either____ or _____

A

purines or pyrimidines

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17
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pyrimidine

A

nucleotides with a single ring structure

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18
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A Giant - A,G

A

mnemonic device to remember the purines, adenine and guanine

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19
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CuTe - C,T

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mnemonic device to remember the pyrimidines, cytosine and thymine

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20
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What is the structure of DNA, describe it.

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The structure of DNA is a double helix - where two chains of nucleotides run in opposite directions and join in the middle

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21
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Why can you determine the sequence of DNA on the second strand?

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Because DNA is double-stranded if you know the seqence on one strand you can determine the sequence of the other strand, based on the nucleotide pairs

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RNA

A

ribonucleic acid

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23
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What is another nucleic acid found in cells that is similar to DNA?

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RNA

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24
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What is RNA made of?

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nucleotides

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25
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RNA is made of nucleotides consisting of three parts….

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phosphate group, sugar (ribose) and a nitrogenous base

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What are the 4 nitrogenous bases of RNA

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  • same: adenine, guanine and cytosine
  • different: uracil instead of thymine
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27
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How is RNA shaped?

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Rna is a single-stranded helix,

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28
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What does Uracil pair with?

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adenine

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29
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What does DNA make?

A

protein

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30
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What are proteins?

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proteins are complex molecules with unique three-dimensional shapes

31
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What are proteins made out of?

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a string of amino acids

32
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How many different amino acids are there?

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20

33
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How does DNA relate to the amino acids.

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DNA contains the instructions to put the amino acids in the correct order.

34
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What is the basic idea of transcription and translation?

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It is the process of making genes

35
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How does RNA relate to DNA and proteins?

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RNA is the intermediate between genes on DNA and the proteins they code for

36
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Define transcription

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the process of making RNA using DNA (DNA ro mRNA)

37
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what does mRNA stand for?

A

messenger RNA

38
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Why is mRNA called what it is?

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because it can leave the nucleus

39
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What is translation?

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translation is the production of polypeptides which occurs using mRNA (mRNA to protein)

40
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Where does translation occur?

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The ribosomes

41
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Where are the instructions for assembling amino acids encoded?

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They are encoded into DNA

42
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how many nucleotide bases are there?

A

4

43
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what is a triplet code used for?

A

A triplet code is used meaning three nucleotides in row code for one amino acid

44
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what are codons?

A

the mRNA base triplets

45
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what direction are codons read in?

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5’ to 3’ direction

46
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what information does each codon provide?

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it specifies the amino acid to be placed at the corresponding position along the polypeptide

47
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What enzyme is used to make mRNA?

A

RNA polymerase

48
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What does RNA polymerase do?

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it catalyzes the reaction, which pulls the DNA strands apart and starts putting together RNA nucleotides

49
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What does the ending, “ase,” mean?

A

an enzyme

50
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What is the promoter region?

A

the DNA sequence where RNA polymerase binds

51
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What is a terminator?

A

the sequence signalling the end of transcription

52
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How many codons are there? And what is their breakdown?

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There are 64 codons. 61 of them code for amino acids, and 3 are terminators

53
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What do tRNAs carry on their ends?

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each tRNA carries a specific amino acid on one end and an anticodon on the other end.

54
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What does the anticodon pair with?

A

The anticodon base pairs with the complementary codon on the mRNA

55
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How long is a tRNA molecule?

A

about 80 nucleotides long

56
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What is a tRNA molecule made out of?

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made of a single RNA strand

57
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What is the rough shape of tRNA, why is it shaped like this?

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It is roughly L shaped due to the hydrogen bonds (it twists and folds)

58
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What helps bring the tRNA anticodon with the mRNA codon in protein synthesis?

A

ribosomes.

59
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What are the 3 binding sites for tRNA and where are they?

A

A, P, E in the ribosome

60
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What is in the A site?

A

it holds the tRNA that carries the amino acids to be added to the chain

61
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What is in the P site?

A

it carries the growing polypeptide chain

62
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What is in the E site?

A

it is the exit site, where the tRNA that’s now empty leaves the ribosome

63
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What is a mutation?

A

changes in the genetic material of a cell.

64
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What are the three types of mutations?

A

Point, missense and nonsense

65
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What are point mutations?

A

they are chemical changes in just one base pair of a gene

66
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What are the two types of point mutations?

A

base pair substitutions or base pair insertions or deletions

67
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What is a base pair substitution?

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It replaces one nucleotide and its partner with another pair of nucleotides

68
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What is a silent mutation?

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a mutations that has no effect on the amino acid produced by a codon because of redundancy of the genetic code

69
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What is a missense mutation?

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It is a change in the amino acid. It will still code for an amino acid, but not the same amino acid

70
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What is a nonsense mutation?

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It is the most severe type, it is a replacement of a single nucleotide.

71
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What can sometimes happen in a nonsense mutation?

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It can change an amino acid codon into a stop codon, nearly always making a non-functional protein.

71
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Insetions and Deletions

A

additions and losses of nucleotide pairs in a gene

72
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a frameshift mutation

A

the insertion or deletion of nucleotide bases in numbers that are not multiples of three

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