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Lectures 11-20 Flashcards

1
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What makes the ribose groups of DNA and RNA different?

A

RNA has an -OH group at ribose C2 (making is less stable as it can be attacked by water)

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2
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What are spliced out?

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introns

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3
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What are repeat elements used for?

A

Detecting polymorphisms

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4
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What are the building blocks for DNA synthesis?

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Deoxynucleoside triphosphates

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5
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How many Pi groups are released when a phosphodiester bond is formed?

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2

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6
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What is required for DNA Polymerase to work?

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RNA primer (added via primase), which is later removed

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7
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How does a phosphodiester bond form?

Why is this significant?

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The 3’ OH group on the RNA primer attacks the phosphate, releasing 2 Pi groups
This is why DNA replication is 5’ to 3’

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8
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What happens when there is a problem in DNA replication?

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DNA polymerase goes back and checks the base, and may excise it

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9
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What are the two strands in the replication fork?

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The leading and lagging strands

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10
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WHat does the lagging strand use to synthesise DNA in the correct direction?

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RNA primers.
DNA Polym. 1 replaces DNA Polym 3. and forms a DNA strand from the RNA primer,.
DNA ligase forms a phosphodiester bond between the sections

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11
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How is DNA spliced?

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RNA containts all the machinery on it, including a spliceosome, allowin splicing to occur contrascriptionally

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12
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What would you find in RIbosome small subunits?

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A sites (binding site for aminoacyl tRNA)
P sites (binding site for peptidyl tRNA)
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13
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What codes for stop?

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UAA
UAG
UGA

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14
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What does AUG code for?

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Methionine (START)

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15
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How many genes do mitochondria have?

A

37

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16
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Name one property of the transcriptome and proteom

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They’re dynamic

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17
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What are VNTR’s

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Variable number tandem repeats, blockes of repeated sequences

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18
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What kinds of satellite DNA are there?

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Micro (smaller, 2-6 bases) and mini (10-60 bases)

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19
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What is a telomere?

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allow replication to tips of chromosomes, and protect chromosomes from fusing to one-another

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20
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What are centromeres for?

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segregation in cell division

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21
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What are the two types of chromatin?

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Euchromatin is uncoiled, where heterochromatin in densely packed

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22
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What are spindles?

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focuses of microtubules (tw o per cell)

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23
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What are the different forms of microtubules?

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interpolar microtubules elongate and repel spindles
Kinetochore microtubules are attached to the kinetochore
Aster fibres

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24
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What splits cells in cytokinesis?

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a contractile ring of actin and myosin filaments

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25
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Give two reasons as to why meiosis is necessary

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reduction division

re-assortment of genes

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26
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What kinds of non-harmful polymorphisms are there?

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variant is in non-functional DNA, in gene but doesn’t change amino acid, or amino acid change doesn’t change protein function

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27
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How can large blocks of DNA be examined?

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Microarray analysis or flourescence in situ hybridisation

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28
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How can chromosomes be examined?

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light microscopy

29
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Why would we sequence DNA?

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the location and type of mutation can be found

30
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What advancement has allowed the automation of sequencing?

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the use of flourescently labelled ddNTP terminators (fluoroscopes can differ in colour for each base)

31
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When do mutations normally occur?

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Cell divison

From intrinsic and extrinsic attacks on DNA

32
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What is the most common mutation?

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C to T at CpG

C can methylate and deaminate to thymine

33
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What is the most common effect pf C->T mutations?

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CGA->TGA

arginine->STOP

34
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Give 3 extracellular agents causing mutations

A

UV
chemicals
Ionizing radiation

35
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How would UV light cause DNA damage?

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cross-linking of adjacent thymines to from a stable dimer, stalling DNA replication

36
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How would environmental chemicals damage DNA?

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interpolate into DNA
cause DNA breaks
chromosome aneuploidy

37
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What would you call a mutation present in an egg or sperm?

What would it be othersie

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Germline, they would otherwise be somatic

38
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What happens when the DNA mismatch repair gene is mutated?

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leads to the accumulation of somatic mutations, leading to cancers

39
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Ideally, how would DNA double strand breaks be repaires?

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The sequence from the other homologous chromosome of the pair would be used to synthesise the missing DNA

40
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What is a missense mutation?

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A single nucleotide polymorphism which alters the amino acid being coded for

41
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What are nonsense mutations?

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change from an amino acid codon to a stop codon, forminga truncated protein

42
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What effect might silent mutations have on splicing?

A

They may create a cryptic splice site, where a sit that isn’t normally spliced may interact with the spliceosome.

43
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What measures does the cell have to limit damage done via nonsense mutations?

A

nonsense mediated decay processes

44
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What are frameshift mutations?

A

insertion or deletion of base pairs producing a stop codon downstream

45
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what happens when short tandem repeats mispair?

A

they cause pathogenic deletions and insertions which cause a frameshift

46
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How would you prepare a karyotype from peripheral lymphocytes?

A

collect venous blood, remove RBC’s, add a culture medium to WBC’s and incubate for 3 days at 37 degrees.
Add colchine and remove the WBC;s, then add a hypotonic saline.
Fix the cells and spread over a slide, to be stained and photgraphed

47
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What are the different arms of chromosomes called?

A

p - short (petit)

q - long

48
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What are light bands in chromosomes?

A

less condensed chromatin, replicating early on in S phase (GC rich)

49
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What are the dark bands in chromosomes?

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condensed chromatin, replicating late and AT rich

50
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What is the significance of DNA being linear?

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Chromosomal anomalies can cause multi-organ problems

Alleles closer together are more likely to be inherited together

51
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What is Array CGH used for?

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Array Comparative Genomic Hybridisation - DNA competes for the same probe sites on the microarray, allowing us to look at the whole genome body in greater detail than down the microscope in FISH.

52
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How does Array CGH work?

A

The patient and reference DNA compete for the same probe sites on the microarray.
If they are in equal amounts, they hybridise equally

53
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What are the types o numerical chromosomal anomalies?

A

Aneuploidy - monosomy and trisomy

Polyploidy - triploidy

54
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What is the relative severity of anomolies to sex chromosomes?

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not too bad tbh

55
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What is a karyotype?

A

the international representation of genotypes

56
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What is the karyotype of Down Syndrome?

What are thought to be its’ main genetic bases?

A

47 XX+21
3 copies of 21 ‘Gene dosage effect’
‘amplified developmental instability’
Extra copy of chromosome 21 because of Robertsonian translocation
Mosaicism with normal and trisomy 21 cell lines

57
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What is the karyotype of Edwards syndrome?

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47 XX +18

58
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What is the karyotype of Patau Syndrome?

What are the effects of this?

A

47 XX +13

Affects midline structures particularly incomplete lobation of the brain

59
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What are some sex chromosome anomalies?

A

Turner syndrome

Klinefelter syndrome

60
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What is the karyotype of Turner syndrome?

A

45 X

61
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What is the karyotype of Klinefelter syndrome?

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47 XXY

results in poorly developed sexual characteristics, but has no effect on learning

62
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From where would errors leading to aneuploidy be inherited?

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Most likely the maternal side

BUT NOT 46 XYY, which is lways inherited parentally

63
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Why do trisomies appear to be associated with an increase in maternal age?

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lengthly interval between onset and completion of meiosis
Accumulating effects on the oocyte during this phase may damage the cell’s spindle
Wear and tear makes non-disjunction more likely

64
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Name 4 endogenous mechanisms causing DNA damage

A

depurination
Deamination
reactive oxygen
methylation of cytosines

65
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How does depurination work?

A

spontaneous fission of link between purine base and sugar, causing the loss of adenine or guanine from helix (deletion of base in new strand)

66
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How does deamination work?

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cytosine deaminates to uracil, causing the substitution of A in the new strand

67
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How would oxygen damage DNA?

A

attacks rings

68
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what is the most common mutation mechanism?

A

deamination;

C to T at CpG dinucleotide

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