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Module 10: Nucleic Acids Flashcards

1
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NAD & FAD are…

A

enzyme co-factors

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2
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what are nucleotides & what are they made of?

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building blocks of nucleic acids
ribose sugar, nitrogenous base & phosphate

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3
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what is the cycled form of ribose in nucleotides?

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beta-D-ribofuranose

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4
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how many rings do pyrimidines & purines?

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pyrimidines: 1 ring
purines: 2 rings

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5
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what 3 bases are found in both DNA & RNA?

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adenine, guanine & cytosine

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6
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what base is only found in DNA?

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Thymine

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7
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what base is only found in RNA?

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Uracil

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8
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how do nitrogenous bases link to ribose?

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though N-glycosidic bonds

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9
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what carbon do nitrogenous bases link to?

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C1

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10
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in purines, the N-glycosidic bond is to what position on the nitrogenous base?

A

N9

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11
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in pyrimidines, the N-glycosidic bond is to what position on the nitrogenous base?

A

N1

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12
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how do nucleotides and nucleosides differ?

A

whether they are phosphorylated at the C5 position

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13
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what suffix is used for nucleosides?

A

osine

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14
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what suffix is used for nucleotides?

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late

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15
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what is AMP formed by?

A

formed from ATP in a reaction catalyzed by adenylyl cylcase

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16
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what do phosphodiester bonds do?

A

join nucleotides in nucleic acids

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17
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nucleotides form linear nucleic strands through…

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3-5 phosphodiester linkages

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18
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sickle cell anemia is caused by the…

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change of 1 nitrogenous base

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19
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can RNA adopt 3D structures?

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yes

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20
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what percentage of rRNA is found in ribosomes?

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80%

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21
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what does tRNA do?

A

transport amino acids to ribosomes for protein synthesis

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22
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what does mRNA do?

A

code for proteins

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23
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what does miRNA do?

A

regulation of gene expression

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24
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how long are oligonucleotides?

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22-24

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25
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what idea did Watson & Crick develop?

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DNA consists of 2 anti-parallel chains in right handed double helical arrangement

26
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where are sugar-phosphate backbones and nitrogenous bases on the helix?

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sugar-phosphates: outside
Nitrogenous bases: inside

27
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Adenine pairs with ( )

28
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Guanine pairs with ( )

29
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what is Chargaffs rule?

A

A + G = T + C

30
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In duplex DNA, what the ratio of purines to pyrimidines?

A

of purines = # of pyrimidines

31
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what is the hydrophobic effect of the double helix?

A

hides purine & pyrimidine rings inside helix

32
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what are stacking interactions?

A

stacked base pairs form van der waals contacts

33
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electrostatic repulsion of negatively shared phosphate groups is decreased by…

A

cations (Mg) & cationic proteins

34
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how many grooves does a double helix have?

A

2 (major & minor)

35
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are grooves in double helix the same length?

36
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what do restriction endonucleases do?

A

recognize & cleave specific DNA sequences

37
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what is methylation?

A

when host cells protect their own DNA by covalent modification of bases at the restriction site

38
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where do restriction enzymes cut?

A

at palindrome sequences

39
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what are restriction enzymes used as?

A

molecular scissors

40
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what does RFLP stand for?

A

restriction fragment length polymorphisms

41
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what is denaturation?

A

complete separation of double-stranded DNA by heat or chemical agents

42
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what is annealing?

A

reforming the double stranded helix to form single strands

43
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what is the melting point? (Tm)

A

the temperature at which 1/2 DNA has become single stranded

44
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what are the substrates for synthesis?

A

nucleotide triphosphate

45
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where are incoming residues added to in DNA?

A

3’ end of the growing strand

46
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what is polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?

A

uses heat-stable enzymes to make new DNA

47
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what does PCR allow?

A

exponential amplification of short regions of DNA very quickly

48
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who discovered PCR?

A

Kary Mullis

49
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what is the 1st level of packaging eukaryotic DNA?

A

involves information of nucleosomes

50
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Histones are ( ) packaging proteins

51
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Nucleosome composed of:

A

2 of each: H2A, H2B, H3, H4 and 146 base pairs of DNA

52
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( ) binds to the region of the linked DNA

53
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how many nucleotides make a codon?

54
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what are introns?

A

non-coding intervening sequences

55
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what are plasmids?

A

non-chromosomal DNA

56
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what kind of genome does bacteria have?

A

closed, circular genome

57
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what shape are eukaryotic chromosomes?

58
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what are telomeres / where are they found?

A

repeating sequences at the end of chromosomes

59
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what are exons?

A

cotton protein-coding information

60
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what is an advantage of introns?

A

multiple mRNAs can be generated from 1 gene

61
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what modification is used in epigenetics?

A

methylation of cytosine residues

62
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what is epigenetics?

A

changes to the genome that do not involve a change in nucleotide sequence

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