Molecular Biology And Biochemistry DNA Flashcards

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Characteristic components of nucleotides

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Nitrogenous base
One or more phosphates
A Pentose sugar

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Why is ribose sugar more reactive the deoxyribose

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It’s more reactive and unstable because of the OH group on the 2 carbon

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Which bases are purines

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Adenine and guanine

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Which bases are pyrimidines

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Thymine, uracil and cytosine

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5
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What is a pyrimidine

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Single ring nitrogenous base

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Structure of dna

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Two anti parallel strands
Each strand has a 5’ (phosphate) and 3’ end (hydroxyl)
Held together by hydrogen bonds
Antiparallel nature allows for h bond formation
Bases planar to sugar phosphate backbone

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What evidence proved dna helical structure

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X ray diffraction

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How does the x ray diffraction of dna show a helical structure

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X shape which is indicative
Layer line which shows the length of one complete turn

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The common features of B-DNA

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Right handed double helix
Hydrophobic core
Hydrophilic backbone
Major and minor groves

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Factors towards the stability and structure of the double helix

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Backbones separated as far apart as possible to avoid electrostatic repulsion
Bases form stablizing h bonds
Bases stack to maximise aromatic ring interactions

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How many hydrogen bonds form between the bases

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A +t 2
C + g 3 (

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Why doesn’t non standard base pairing work

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Distorts the geometry of the double helix the bases are no longer 1.1 nm apart

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Why are their aromatic stack interactions

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Benzene contains an e in all p orbitals which can delocalise and form a ring of electron density around the planar ring

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14
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Why is displacement stacking better then eclipse stacking

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Maximises attractive interactions between dipoles

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Why are there major and minor groves

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The glycosidic bonds between bases are the same distance apart so nucleotides must be at an angle
They allow for dna bonding proteins to read dna without unwinding the helix

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Why does DNA have thymine not uracil

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Cytosine can delaminate to uracil therefore uracil is identified and removed in dna repair processes

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Why does RNA have uracil not thymine

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Thymine is more energetically costly to produce as a methylated uracil
There’s no bio synthetic pathway for it to be produced

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Why is rna less stable then dna

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OH group on c2 acts as an internal nucleophile and causes the breakage of the phosphodiester backbone

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19
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What end are nucleotides added to in replication

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3’

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20
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How does chain elongation occurs

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The OH group on c3 has a nucleophilic attack on the primary phosphate group of another nucleotide. Hydrolysis of the other two phosphates provide energy for the reation

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What are the steps to separate the double helix

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Helicase opens the helix by breaking the weak h bonds between bases
Topoisomerase releaves the tension in the helix by breaking the dna and reasealing to the right of the replication fork ahead of the helicase
Single stranded dna binding proteins bind to separate strands to prevent annealing

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How does dna get a 3’ OH end to start replication

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Short rna primer is made by dna primase

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How does the antiparallrl nature of dna cause problems

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Lagging strand is synthesised discontinuously

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What are the discontinuous stands of dna in the lagging strand called

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Okazaki fragments

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How does replication occurs on lagging strand
Dna primase creates rna primers Dna polymerase III extends the dna from 3’ OH and makes Okazaki fragments Dna polymerase I removes RNA primase and fills gaps Dna Ligase joins discontinuous gaps
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What’s in place to prevent dna polymerase detaching
Sliding clamp protein complex
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Source of error in dna repl
Frameshifts Substitution mutations
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How are incorrect bases corrected
Dna polymerase has exonuclease activity that can remove the wrong base
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What different in the replication of circular dna
2 replication forks as single place of origin Dna has multipul origins of replication
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Base requirements of transcription
Ribonucleoside triphosphates (NTPs) A template Rna polymerase An energy source
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How is the correct place in the genome found for transcription
Promoter region containing specific sequences for rna polymerase and regulatory proteins
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How does rna polymerase bind to promoter
Sigma subunit between -35 and -10
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How does transcription stop
Rna polymerase has a hairpin structure of that are complementary to termination area causing release
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What the protein coding region also called
Open reading frame
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Transcription in prokaryotes
Proteins coded for that have similar function are located next to each other and transcribed together in a single mRNA called an operon
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Features of translation
Code must translate to one of twenty amino acids Involves ribosomes and tRNA mRNA read as triplet codons
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What are the three stop codons
UAA UAG UGA
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How are amino acids attached to tRNA
Aminoacyl-tRNA enzymes
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What are the three binding sites in ribosomes
Peptidyl Exit Aminoacyl
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How is translation initiated in prokaryotes
In the 5’ untranslated region, the shine-dalgarno pairs with the 16S rRNA which places the AUG in the p site of ribosome A modified methionine is used for the initiating amino acid
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How is translation initiated by eukaryotes
The small ribosomal subunit and initiating tRNAi-Met bonds to 5’ cap and scans until AUG
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Translation elongation
A charged aminoacyl tRNA enters the A site and pairs with anticodon Peptide bond is formed between the two amino acids which breaks the covalent bond between the amino acid and tRNA at p-site The tRNA that was in the p site leaves by e site and the tRNA with the peptide chain moved to P site freeing A site This repeatedly occurs untill a stop codon enters the a site Release factors stimulate hydrolysis of polypeptide from tRNA
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How is DNA amplified
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Created by Kary Mullis
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What process is PCR based on
Dna replication
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How many primer are needed for PCR
2 one for each stand of dna
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What is the process of PCR
Heated to 96 to denature and break hydrogen bonds Cool to approximately 55 to allow rna primers and extremophile dna polymerase (taq polymerase) to bond Heat to 72 for extention
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What type of DNA sequencing is used for dna tech
Sanger sequencing
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What can be inserted to prevent further extention
Dideoneucleotides because it has only hydrogen on c3 so sugar phosphate backbone can’t form
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How does Sanger sequencing work
A mixture of dNTP and ddNTPs are added the ddNTPs with Florescent tags Dna polymerase extends strand complementary to template Generated multipul fragments of different lengths different by one nucleotide so the sequence can be discovered Fragments are separated by size by capillary electrophoresis