Lecture 8: Microbial Genetics Flashcards
What is the study of:
-What genes are
-How they carry information
-How information is expressed
-How genes are replicated
Genetics
What is the study of genetics?
-What genes are
-How they carry information
-How information is expressed
-How genes are replicated
What is a segment of DNA that encodes a functional product, usually a protein?
Gene
What refers to all of the genetic material in a cell?
Genome
What is the molecular study of genomes?
Genomics
What refers to the genes of an organism?
Genotype
What refers to the expression of the genes, aka observable traits?
Phenotype
What are small circular molecules of DNA?
Plasmids
Do plasmids autonomously replicate?
Yes
What requires that it carry information required for their own replication, and often for one or more cellular traits
that are not essential for normal bacterial metabolism, growth or reproduction
and
can confer survival advantages?
Plasmids
What are fertility factors, resistance factors, bacteriocin factors, virulence plasmids, cryptic plasmids?
Types of plasmids
What type of genome structure is:
-genome in two structures (nuclear DNA and extranuclear DNA)
-several linear chromosomes
-Located in membrane bound nucleus
Eukaryotic genome structure
What type of genome structures is:
-genome in two structures (chromosomes and plasmids)
-circular chromosome
-located in the nucleoid, in cytoplasm
Prokaryotic genome structure
What is:
-the duplication of chromosomal and extrachromosomal DNAs
-Occurs before cell division
-Vertical transmission
DNA replication
Are DNA strands antiparallel?
Yes
What are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine?
The polymer of nucleotides
DNA strands are double helix associated with what?
Proteins
What is the deoxyribose-phosphate to a DNA strand?
the “back bone”
What holds together strands between AT and CG?
Hydrogen bonds
What is this process:
-parental molecule
-separation of parental strands into templates
-formation of new strands complementary to template strands?
Semiconservative DNA replication
Is DNA replication bidrectional?
Yes
What is an anabolic polymerization process, requires monomers (nucleotides) and energy?
DNA replication
What replicates DNA in preparation for cell division?
DNA replication
What starts at the Origin of Replication (Ori), opened up by DNA helicase and copied by DNA polymerase III?
DNA replication
What is the flow of bacteria’s genetic information?
- Within a cell central dogma (they follow DNA to MRNA to protein)
- Between generations of cells (parental cells to daughter cells aka dna replication or vertical transmission)
- between cells of the same generation (horizontal transfer) occurs when the different cells share the same genetic information and join genetic information to create recombinant cells
What are these:
- Within a cell central dogma (they follow DNA to MRNA to protein)
- Between generations of cells (parental cells to daughter cells aka dna replication or vertical transmission)
- between cells of the same generation (horizontal transfer) occurs when the different cells share the same genetic information and join genetic information to create recombinant cells
the three different routes of the flow of bacteria’s genetic information
Which cell is capable of:
-transformation
-transduction
-conjugation
Recombinant cell from a horizontal transfer
What are double-stranded DNA made up of?
Nucleotides
Adenine pairs with what?
Adenine pairs with Thymine