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Introduction to Genetics Flashcards

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Genetics from the Greek work GEN means

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  • to become
  • to grow
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Genetics

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  • branch of biology that deals with the principles of heredity and variation in all living things
  • core of biological science
  • impinges on other natural and behavioral sciences
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Pre-Mendelian Era (Mga Tao)

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  • Hippocrates
  • Aristotle
  • Kolreuter
  • Gartner
  • Caspar Wolff
  • Charles Darwin
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He believed that each part of the body produces semen which is passed on to offsprings

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Hippocrates (4BC)

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Proposed concept of Potentiality (Vital Heat) and Concept of Preformation (17th to 18th Century)

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Aristotle (323 BC)

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He proposed Epigenesis

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Caspar Wolff (1733-1794)

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He discovered that hybrids were intermediate between two parents

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Kolreuter

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He studied segregating F2 populations in peas

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Gartner

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He proposed the Theory of Pangenesis

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Charles Darwin

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Mendelian Era (Classical Genetics) 1822-1884 (Mga Tao)

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  • Mendel
  • August Weismann
  • Wilhelm Roux
  • Carl Correns, Hugo de Vries, Erich von Tschermak
  • Hetwig, Fol
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Mendelian Era (Classical Genetics) 1822-1884 (Mga Tao)
Birth of Genetics

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  • Cuenot, Bateson, Sanders
  • Johansen
  • Sutton and Boveri
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He laid foundation of genetics through his work on garden peas

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Mendel (1866)

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Proposed Germaplasm Theory

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August Weismann

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Discovered that chromosomes are bearers of hereditary traits

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Wilhelm Roux (1883)

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They duplicated Mendel’s experiments and came up with same results

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  • Carl Correns (Germany)
  • Hugo de Vries (Holland)
  • Erich von Tschermak (Seysenneg)
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They discovered role of nucleus in fertilization and cell division

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  • Hertwig (1875)
  • Fol (1883)
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They applied Mendelian principles to animals

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Cuenot, Bateson, Sanders (1902)

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He coined ‘genetics, zygote, homozygote, heterozygote and allelomorph (allele)

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Bateson (1905)

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He coined ‘gene’ from Darwin’s Pangene

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Johansen (1909)

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Chromosomes Theory of Inheritance

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Sutton and Boveri (1903)

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Post-Mendelian Era (Mga Tao)
Merging of Genetics and Biochemistry

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  • Archibald Garrod (1909)
  • Thomas Hunt Morgan (1910)
  • Griffin (1927)
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Published ‘Inborn Errors of Metabolism’ paving the way for the merging of Genetics and Biochemistry

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Archibald Garrod (1909)

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Discovered genes are arranged in linear array; sex linkage Drosophila

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Thomas Hunt Morgan (1910)

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First to study the nature of the genetic material; called it ‘Transforming Principle’

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Griffin (1927)

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Post-Mendelian Era (Mga Tao)
Molecular Genetics

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  • McClintock (1931)
  • Beadle and Tatum (1941)
  • Oswald, Avery, Macleod, and McCarty (1944)
  • Hershey and Chase (1952)
  • Watson and Crick (1953)
  • Tjio and Levan (1956)
  • Meselson and Stahl (1958)
  • Kornberg (1958)
  • Ochoa (1959)
  • Jacob and Monod (1961)
  • Nirenberg, Ochoa, and Khorana (1966)
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They introduced an elegant double-helical model for the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA

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James Watson and Francis Crick

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When did Watson and Crick introduced an elegant double-helical model for the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA

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1953

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Two componenets of Chromosomes

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  • DNA
  • Protein
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_______ group showed that genes are located on _________

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  • T.H. Morgan
  • chromosomes
30
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The discovery of the genetic role of DNA began with research by ______ _______ in _____

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  • Frederick Griffith
  • 1928
31
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What are the two strains of a bacterium that Griffith worked with?

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  1. Pathogenic
  2. Harmless
32
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In 1944, they announced that the transforming substance was DNA

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  • Oswald Avery
  • Mclyn McCarty
  • Colin McLeod
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When and what did Oswald, McCarty, and McLeod announced?

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  • 1944
  • that the tranforming substance was DNA
34
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Only ____ worked in transforming harmless bacteria into ________ bacteria

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  • DNA
  • pathogenic bacteria
35
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Where did further evidences for DNA as the genetic material came from?

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  • studies of viruses that infects bacteria
36
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A virus that is widely used in molecular genetics research

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Bacteriophages (or phages)

37
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They performed experiments showing that DNA is the genetic material of a phage knwon as T2

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  • Alfred Hershey
  • Martha Chase
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When did Hershey and Chase performed their experiments?

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1952

39
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_____ is the genetic material of a phage known as _____

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  • DNA
  • T2
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What did Hershey and Chase designed to determine the source of genetic material in phage?

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An experiment showing that only one of the components of T2 (DNA or protein) enters an E. coli cell during infection

41
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It was known that DNA is a polymer of _______, each consisting of a ______ ___, a _____, and a ________ group

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  • nucleotides
  • nitrogenous base
  • sugar
  • phosphte group
42
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He reported that DNA composition varies from one species to the next

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Erwin Chargaff

43
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When and what did Chargaff reported about the DNA?

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  • 1950
  • that DNA composition varies from one species to the next
44
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From Chargaff’s report, what is its impact to DNA as a genetic material?

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Made DNA a more credible candidate for the genetic material

45
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It states that in any species there is an equal number of A and T bases, and an equal number of G and C bases

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Chargaff’s rule

46
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Chargaff’s rules

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States that in any species there is an equal number of A and T bases, and an equal number of G and C bases

47
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They used a technique called X-ray crystallography to study molecular structure

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Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin

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What did Wilkins and Franklin used to study molecular structure?

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X-ray crystallography

49
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X-ray crystallography

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a technique used to study molecular structure

50
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What base pair resulted in uniform width consistent with X-ray?

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pairing purine with a pyramidine

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Purine + Purine

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Too wide

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Pyramidine + Pyramidine

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Too narrow

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Purine + Pyramidine

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Width consistent with X-ray data

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What did Watson and Crick noted about the base pairings?

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Specific base pairing suggested a possible copying mechanism for genetic material

55
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Whose experiments was supported the semiconservative model?

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Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl

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Meselson and Stahl labeled the nucleotides of the ____ ______ with a ____ isotope of nitrogen, while any ____ _______ were labeled with a _____ isotope

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  • old strand
  • heavy
  • new nucleotides
  • lighter
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Why was the copying of DNA remarkable?

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because of its speed and accuracy

58
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How many enzymes and other proteins prticipate in DNA replication?

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More than a dozen

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Application of Genetics

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  • Plant and Animal Improvement
  • Medicine
  • Genetic Counseling
  • Legal Applications
  • Genetic Engineering
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Genetic Engineering

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  • Transgenics
  • Legal, Social, Environmental and Health Implications
  • Ethical Issues in Biotechnology
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Application of Biotechnology

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  • Pternity Testing
  • Forensics
62
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Gene Cloning

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  • CC (Carbon copy) Dec 22, 2001
  • Dolly (the sheep) 1996-2003
  • 1st cloned calves (Japan 1998)
  • Tissue cultured Wollemi pine form Australia
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The Wollemi pine from Australia was dated from _______ period and was thought to be extinct ____ years ago

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  • Cretaceous period
  • 50m years ago
64
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Health Medicine and Biotechnology

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  • Insulin
  • Interferon
  • Hepatitis B vaccine
65
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Insulin is for ______

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Diabetes

66
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Interferon is for treating _____

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Cancer

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Environment and Biotechnology

Using _____ ______ to ____ the environment

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  • living organisms
  • clean
68
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Stem Cell Technology

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  • Treating patient with Leukemia
  • Used to heal damage in cornea and improved eyesight
69
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Types of Stem cell Technologies

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  • Bone-marrow-derived stem cells
  • Umbilical cord blood stem cell
  • Embryonic stem cell
70
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Cells with no identity

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Stem cells

71
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Umbilical Cord Blood Stem cells can ______

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assume the identity of other cells (differentiation)

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