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Lecture 52. Chromosomal (Segmental) Variation Flashcards

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1
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What are chromosomal mutations?

A

Change in the chromosome number per cell
Large-scale (segmental) change in chromosome structure
Visible by microscopy

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Why investigate chromosomal mutations?

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Cytological insight into meiosis
Medical insight in causes of genetic disease
Molecular insight of how genes interact throughout a genome
Evolutionary insight (e.g., origin of new species)

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What does n mean in terms of chromosomes?

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Number of chromosome sets

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What does 1n represent?

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Monoploid

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What does 2n represent?

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Diploid

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What does 3n represent?

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Triploid

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7
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What does 4n represent?

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Tetraploid

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What does aneuploid mean?

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Change in number of some but not all chromosomes

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9
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Is monoploidy useful in most animal species?

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No, it is non-viable in most animal species

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In what animals is monoploidy useful?

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Social insects (ants, bees and wasps)
Males are monoploid & develop by parthenogenesis (gametes from mitosis)

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Why is monoploidy useful in plant breeding?

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Pollen grains subjected to cold shock begin to divide

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What is an example of a triploid plant?

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Banana

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What are examples of tetraploid plants?

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Coffee, cotton, peanut, potato, oilseed rape

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What are examples of hexaploid plants?

A

Oat and wheat

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What is an example of an octaploid plant?

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Strawberry

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What does paleotetraploid mean?

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Looks like and is functionally a diploid, but used to be a tetraploid

17
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What are examples of paleotetraploid plants?

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Cabbage and soybean

18
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What are examples of tetraploid animals?

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African clawed frog, viscacha rat, rainbow trout

19
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What is a common cause for the origin of new plant species?

A

Polyploidy

20
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What increases with higher ploidy?

A

Size of organism

21
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What are the two origins of polyploidy?

A

Autopolyploidy and allopolyploidy

22
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What does autopolyploidy mean?

A

Derived from the same diploid species

23
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What does allopolyploidy mean?

A

Derived from different progenitor species

24
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How was hexaploid wheat derived?

A

Derived from three ancestral diploid species (each n=7)

25
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What are the genomes in hexaploid wheat referred to as?

A

A, B & D

26
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What can be used to disrupt spindle assembly and thereby block chromosomal segregation?

A

Colchicine

27
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What are the consequences of meiosis in a triploid?

A

Highly sterile gametes

28
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What can meiosis in an autotetraploid result in?

A

Two bivalents (normal)
One quadrivalent (normal)
Univalent + Trivalent (abnormal)

29
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What occurs after meiosis malfunctions?

A

Non-disjunction

30
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What are the consequences of non-disjunction in meiosis I?

A

Trisomic and monosomic daughter cells (both lethal)

31
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What are the consequences of non-disjunction in meiosis II?

A

Disomic daughter cells (normal)

32
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What are the consequences of miss-aligned repeat sequences?

A

Unequal crossing-over & gain or loss of repeats

33
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What is a pericentric inversion?

A

A large segmental inversion that encompasses the centromere

34
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What is a paracentric inversion?

A

A large segmental inversion that does not encompass the centromere

35
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What happens if there is no recombination within an inversion loop?

A

No deletion or duplication is possible

36
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What happens if a crossover within an inversion loop takes place?

A

Dicentric and acentric chromosomes will be created

37
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What occurs in heterozygous translocation?

A

One pair of chromosomes is interchanged whilst the other pair remains normal

38
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What occurs in homozygous translocation?

A

Both pairs of chromosomes are interchanged

39
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How can cancer be caused by somatic translocation?

A

ABL encodes a protein kinase that transduces a signal for cell proliferation, which is initiated by growth factor
Chimeric protein is always active (cancerous)

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