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Lec 6. Molecular Evolution Flashcards

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What does Divergent Evolution mean?

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Homologs are derived from a common ancestor

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What are two types of homologs?

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Paralogs and orthologs

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What does paralog mean?

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Within a species (Gene Duplication)

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What does Ortholog mean?

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Between species

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What does Convergent Evolution mean?

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Same end point, different start point.

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Pertaining to convergent evolution, what is similar and not similar?

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Phenotypes structures similar but nucleotide/amino acid identity not similar

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What are four reasons why a phylogenetic Trees can disagree?

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When comparing phenotypic/molecular info, convergent evolution or horizontal gene transfer has occurred, sequence info has been lost through purifying selection

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What is assumption 1 in Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling’s 1965 hypothesis?

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Spontaneous DNA mutation is random throughout the genome

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What is assumption 2 in Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling’s 1965 hypothesis?

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Mutation of each gene is that genome is equally random

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What is the observation in Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling’s 1965 hypothesis?

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Mutation rates are consistent amongst several mammalian lineages

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What is the conclusion in Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling’s 1965 hypothesis?

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The rate of molecular evolution is constant over time in all lineages

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Was Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling’s 1965 hypothesis conclusion true or false? why

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False, within lineages, molecular clocks are roughly constant over time and UNIVERSAL molecular evolutionary clock most definitely does NOT exists.

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What are three ways to classify mutations?

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The cause, phenotypic effects and genotype descriptions

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What are the two subtypes of genotype descriptions when pertaining to classifying mutations?

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Positional and molecular change

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What are the three subtypes for molecular change?

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substitution mutation, Insertions/deletions and transposition.

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What are substitution mutations?

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point mutations

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Define substitution mutations

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A single base pair changed indentity

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What causes substitution mutations?

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Pol error that was not proofread and error-prone DNA damage repair

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During substitution mutations what changes occur?

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Transition and transversion

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What is transition?

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Purine to purine or pyrimidine to pyrimidine

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What is transversion?

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purine to pyrimidine and vice versa

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What are the effects of substitution mutations?

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silent mutations, Missense mutations, Neutral mutation and Nonsense mutation

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Define a silent mutation

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No change in amino acid

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Define Missense mutation

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Change in amino acid

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Define Neutral mutation
Change to a chemically similar amino acid
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Define Nonsense mutation
change to a stop codon
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Neutral mutation falls under what other mutation?
Missense mutation
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Which of the three mutations pertaining to substitution mutation are synonymous?
Silent mutation
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Which of the three mutations pertaining to substitution mutation are nonsynonymous?
Missense and nonsense
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With Codon degeneracy, what two rules do you need to keep in mind?
Changes in the 1st and 2nd codon position are usually nonsynonymous. Transitions in the 3rd codon position are usually silent
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Consider every position of every codon, and mutate each to ever other possible nucleotide. What NS:S ratio would we see?
3:1:1
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In the absense of selection, what NS:S ratio do we expect?
3:1:1
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If positive selection (mutations are good) is present, what do we expect from the NS:S ratio?
To be larger
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If purifying selection is present (mutation is bad), what do we expect from the NS:S ratio?
to be smaller
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What is the definition for insertion or deletion?
1-1000s of base pairs are added or removed
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What causes insertions or deletions?
Transposon cut/paste, pol slippage, unequal crossing over.
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What are the effects of insertions or deletions in a coding region?
No much if the number of base pairs was a multiple of 3 but FRAMESHIFT mutation if not a multiple of 3
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What are the effects of insertions or deletions in a noncoding region?
Can alter regulation, deposition of a new/duplicate exon or gene
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What is another effect of insertions or deletions?
Creation of a fragile site on the chromosome
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What is the definition of Transposition?
Movement of a transposon within the genome
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What are two characteristics of Transposition?
Excision is not precise, so host sequences go along for the ride to the next destination. Removal leaves behind a scar
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What are the effects of Transposition?
In general the same as insertions and deletions.
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What is one thing to note about Transposition?
This is the second way to make a gene duplication
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What are two ways to duplicate all/part of the gene?
Transposition or crossing over
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Duplicate all/part of the chromosome
aneuploidy
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Duplicate the whole genome
polyploidy
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What are two outcomes after gene duplication occurs?
Gene inactivation or change of gene function
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True or False? Mutations are more likely to be advantageous than detrimental
False. Are more likely to be detrimental
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Why do most duplicate genes become inactive?
Mutations are more likely to be detrimental
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What are pseudogenes?
Non-functional genes
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What is a pseudoexon?
Non-functional exon
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True or False? Some genes that become active can become active once more
True
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Do single-copy genes become pseudogenes?
Rarely
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What is one single-copy gene that became a pseudogene in vertebrates?
L-gulono-γ-lactone oxidase
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How did we lose L-gulono-γ-lactone oxidase?
Via diet. Not having enough vitamin C
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What are two reasons for a duplicate gene to be retained?
Extra expression is needed or a new function is created
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What are two ways the function of a gene can change?
Addition of function by protein elongation or mutation accumulation tinkers with protein function
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What are 4 ways of adding function by protein elongation?
duplicate a protein domain, remove the stop codon, remove a splice site, and transposon/viral insertion into an exon
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What are gene terms?
Exon, intron
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What are protein terms?
Domain
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Can domain boundaries by different than exons?
Yes. Moving an exon does not mean moving a domain
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What is an example of domain repeats?
Immunoglobulins
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What are three ways mutation accumulation tinkers with protein function
Subfunctionalization, Neofunctionalization and gene rearrangements
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Define subfunctionalization
Fine-tuning the exsisting function
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Define Neofunctionalization
A brand new function emerges
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Define gene rearrangements
Shuffle of the deck
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What are three ways to exon shuffle?
Exon duplication (protein elongation, Exon deletion (protein shortening) and exon Insertion (protein domain swapping)
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What are the 5 types of gene rearrangements?
Exon shuffling, alternative splicing, overlapping genes, intron sliding, genes within introns
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What are mosaic/chimeric proteins?
Pieces of one protein mixed with another protein usually resulting from Exon insertion.
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What is a good example of mosaic/chimeric proteins?
Blood clotting agents
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What is alternative splicing?
Temporary domain swapping
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Define overlapping genes
Constrains mutation
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What is an example of how overlapping genes can occur?
Frameshift mutation
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What does intron sliding do?
Expose/cover protein coding regions
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What are Intron-encoded protein genes?
Translated gene within excised intron
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What is a nested gene?
gene in antisense strand of an intron

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