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Lab 2 - Human genome Flashcards

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DNA molecule basic components

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The pentose sugar, deoxyribose, a phosphate group and four types of nitrogenous bases

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Pyrimidines

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Cytosine and thymine

Single carbon-nitrogen rings

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Purines

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Adenine and guanine

Double-carbon nitrogen rings

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How many hydrogen bonds between cytosine-guanine pairs?

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Three

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How many hydrogen bonds between adenine-thymine pairs?

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Two

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DNA coiling

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First DNA is wound around a histone proteins core to form nucleosome –> nucleosome form a helical solenoid, each turn including six nucleosomes –> solenoid are organized into chromatin loops

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Each nucleotide subunit consist of

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One deoxyribose, one phosphate group and one base

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Gene definition

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A functional unit in the genome that contains the genetic information for one or more gene products

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Protein-coding gene

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Three components: the coding sequence, regulatory sequence, and seemingly useless sequences

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Within the genomic DNA, a gene is defined by

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The direction of transcription in the 5’ to 3’ direction

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Sense strand

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The DNA strand which corresponds to the RNA sequence

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Antisense strand

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Complement of the sense strand (which serve as a template for RNA biosynthesis)

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UTR - Untranslated regions

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The sequence before the start codon and after the stop codon

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AAUAAA

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Polyadenylation signal where transcription terminates

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Introns

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Noncoding sequence in a gene that are positioned between coding sequences (exons) and removed by splicing from the pre-mRNA transcript

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Exons

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Coding sequences in the pre-mRNA that are separated by noncoding introns

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Tandem repeats

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occur in DNA when a pattern of one or more nucleotides is repeated and the repetitions are directly adjacent to each other

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Satellite DNA

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Repeats are clustered together in certain chromosome locations, where they occur as tandem repeats

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Dispersed repetitive DNA

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tend to be scattered singly throughout the genome; they do not occur in tandem

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Satellite DNA can easily be separated by

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Centrifugation in a cesium chloride density gradient

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Alpha satellite DNA:

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Tandem repeats of 171-bp sequence. Found near the centromeres of chromosomes. Several million base pairs

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Minisatelites

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Block of tandem repeats (14 to 500-bp), whose total length is much smaller, usually a few thousand base pairs

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Microsatellites

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Smaller, repeat units are 1 to 13-bp, and the total length of the array is usually less than a few hundred base pairs

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Why are minisatellites and microsatellites of special interest in human genetics?

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Because they vary in length among individuals, making them highly useful for gene mapping

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Transposons

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“Jumping genes”, mobile DNA elements. DNA sequences are able to leave a chromosome and to reenter the genome at nonhomologous points of the DNA

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Retrotransposons

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The DNA sequence is multiplied through reverse transcription of mRNA into cDNA, which is integrated into a different location

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Long terminal repeat (LTR)

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5-10 kb. Central protein-encoding region is flanked by LTR or non LTR

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Long interspersed elements (LINEs)

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Up to 7 kb

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Short interspersed elements (SINEs)

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Up to 300 bp, incl. Alu

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Alu

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Can mediate an asymmetric recombination and cause genomic deletions and duplications

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DNA molecules of mitochondria

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Base pairs arranged on a double stranded circular molecule. Encodes 2 rRNAs and 22 tRNAs. Contain no introns. Males do not transmit mtDNA

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Mutation rate of mtDNA

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10 times higher than nuclear DNA. (lack of RNA repair mechanism + damage from free oxygen radicals

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Threshold effect

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Whether a heteropasmic mitochondrial is expressed phenotypically depends on the proportion of the cell’s normal mtDNA to mutated mtDNA

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Organs that are most affected by mitochondrial diseases

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CNS, heart, kidney

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Symptoms of mitochondrial diseases

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Encephalopathy
Myopathy
Cardiomyopathy
External ophthalmoplegia
Retinal degenaration
Renal dysfunction.
36
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When does MERRF syndrom (myoclonic epilepsy with Ragged Red Fibers) typically presents symptoms?

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Childhood

37
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What does myoclonus progress into?

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Generilized epilepsy, ataxia, weakness, finally dementia. Short stature, hearing loss, optic atrophy, cardiomyopathy

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Leber herditary optic neuropathy

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Affect optic nerve, acute painless loss of vision, progress to severe optic atrophy, males>females. Many carriers remain asymptomatic

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Kearns-Sayre syndrome

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CPEO (chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia), retinopathy, ptosis, deafness, cardiac arrhythmias, ataxia

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