Manipulating genomes Flashcards

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What is the human genome?

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All the genetic material of an organism

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What is the genome for eukaryotes?

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All the DNA in the nucleus and the mitochondria combined

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What is an exon?

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The regions of DNA that codes for proteins, only 2% of your total DNA

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What is an intron?

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Non-coding regions of DNA removed from mRNA before translation

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What is satellite DNA?

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Short sequences of DNA that are repeated many times, can be microsatellites (smaller sections)

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What is DNA profiling?

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Producing an image of the patterns in the DNA

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The uses of DNA profiling?

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Paternity tests, criminal investigations, and identifying individuals at risk of developinga genetic disease

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Stages of DNA profiling?

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Extraction, digestion, separation, hybridization and development

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Explain the extraction stage of DNA profiling?

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The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is used to extract DNA from a tissue sample

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The other name for restrictive enzymes?

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Restriction endonucleases

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Explain digestion stage in DNA profiling?

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Strands cut into small fragments using restrictive enzymes, make 2 cuts through each strand of double helix

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Explain the separation stage of DNA profiling?

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The cut fragments undergo electrophoresis

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Explain the process of electrophoresis?

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Charged particles move through gel medium under electric current, the gel is immersed in alkali to separate double strands into single strands, transferred onto a membrane by Southern blotting

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What is hybridization?

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Fluorescent DNA probes added to excess fragments, bind to complementary strands under particular conditions

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3 stages of the PCR?

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Denaturing, Annealing and Extraction

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Which enzyme is used in the extraction of the PCR?

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Taq polymerase - can withstand high temps, obtained from a bacteria in hot springs

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Examples of where DNA traces can be obtained from?

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Hair, blood, semen, saliva and skin cells

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Explain what happens at each stage of the PCR?

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Denaturing - High temps (90-95) DNA denatures, hydrogen bonds broken, strands separate
Annealing - Temp decrease (55-60) primers bind (anneal) to ends of DNA strands
Extraction - Temp increase (72-75), DNA polymerase builds complementary strands from free nucleotides, Taq polymerase is used

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What technique is used for DNA sequencing?

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The Sanger sequencing technique

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What do the terminator bases do?

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Modified fluorescent versions of the four nucleotide bases that stops the DNA synthesis

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Explain the Sanger sequence technique?

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The DNA is mixed with DNA polymerase, terminator and normal nucleotides, placed in a thermal cycler, DNA adds complementary bases, every time terminator base picked up sequencing stops, sequencing restarts, different length sequences undergo electrophoresis, data fed into a computer

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What is bioinformatics?

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The development of the software and computing tools needed to organize and analyze biological data

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What is computational biology?

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Data that is used to build theoretical models of biological systems that can be used to predict different circumstances

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Examples of synthetic biology?
Genetic engineering, immobilized enzymes, synthesis of new genes, artificial genomes
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What is synthetic biology?
Emerging area of research described as construction of artificial biological pathways, organisms or devices, redesigning natural biological systems
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What is DNA barcoding?
Identifying particular sections of the genome that are common to all species but very between them
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