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Module 2 Flashcards

1
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What is a monoploid?

A

One copy of the genome

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2
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What is diploid?

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Twi copies of the genome

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3
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What is haploid?

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Number of chromosomes in sperm and egg

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4
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What is a prototrophs?

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Bacteria that produce everything it needs to live

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5
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What is auxotroph?

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Mutant bacteria that requires additional needs

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6
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How do bacteria swap DNA?

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Transformation, conjugations, transduction and horizontal tranfer

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7
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What is transformation?

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one bacterium takes up DNA expelled from a dead bacterium

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8
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What is conjugation?

A

direct transfer of a DNA strand from one bacterium to anotherWh

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9
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What is transduction?

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virus transfers bacterial genes from one bacterium to another

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10
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What is horizontal transfer?

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DNA is transferred between two different bacteria

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11
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How did they figure out transformation of DNA?

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Deadly bacteria added to mice (kills mice, heat-killed added (alive), good bacteria added (alive) and then heatkilled bad and alive good (mouse died)

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12
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How did they determine that DNA was the cause of the swap?

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Heatkilled and bacteria and DNAase and RNAase etc added together. To see what colonies grow.

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13
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How did they discover conjugation?

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Two rich cultures, placed onto minimal medium, no growth. When incubated together, growth. DNA was swapped.

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14
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How does conjugation occur?

A

Homologous recombination

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15
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How do viruses reproduce?

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Have to infect living host

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16
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What is the life cycle of bacteriophage T4?

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Injects DNA into cell, synthesis begins, replication begin and host cell degrades, tails , heads appear and then breaks out of cell.

17
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How was transduction discovered?

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Two cultures were placed on minimal media, didn’t expect anything, some grew, transfer was unidirectional

18
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What is the difference between specialised and generalised transduction?

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Generalised is caused by phage DNA and specialized is caused by DNA shared between bacteria that already had phage DNA.

19
Q

How to distinguish 3 parasexual using a u-tube?

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20
Q

Difference between lytic and lysogenic?

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Lytic creates many bacteriophage lambda which results in them being released into the cell, lysogenic bacteriophage lambda is incorporated into the cell DNA via site-specific recombination. They can switch any time.

21
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How does site-specific recombination work?

A

bacteriophage lambda breaks both DNA circular and straight bacteria creating an X, This results in the genes linking and X leaving.

22
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U-tube experiment: is cell contact required for transformation, conjugation or transduction?

A

No, yes, no

23
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U-tube experiment: is it sensitive to DNAase: transformation, conjugation or transduction?

A

yes, no, no

24
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How does bacteriophage lambda DNA remove itself from DNA to create circular DNA?

A

attBP genes line up, creating a loop still connected to the bacterial DNA, circular breaks off the create phages to infect other cells.

25
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How can bacteria DNA can be swapped via phages?q

A

When circular DNA is trying to remove itself, the loop can incorporate some DNA which can be incorporated in the next cell during site-specific recombination.

26
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What are the three types of transposition and how do they do it?

A

Cut and paste (self-explanatory), transposition (mRNA to DNA) replication (replicated and inseted into new spot)

27
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Can transposition occur in bacteria?

A

No

28
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What are the IS elements?

A

Terminal inverted repeats q

29
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How is DNA inserted during transposition?

A

DNA is cleaved, DNA inserted and filled creating duplicate of the target site.

30
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How can transposition near each other create drug resistance (composite transposition?

A

IS elements are near each other, DNA is moved and inserted/

31
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What are tn3 elements?

A

Larger than IS elements, multiple of them and create replicative transpose.

32
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What does conjugative R plasmid?

A

Create antibiotic resistance through conjugative transfer

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