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Molecular Genetics Flashcards

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Griffith

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First to identify genetic material - narrowed down to DNA and protein the discovered transformation - he used mice - proved that DNA was the genetic material

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Hershey and Chase

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Used bacteriophages and E-Coli to prove that DNA is the genetic material - they injected phosphorus into the bacterium not the sulfur

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Watson and Crick

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They used Rosalind Franklins work (Photo 51) to discover the double helix - which is the shape of DNA

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Avery

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Repeated Griffiths work and discovered that DNA is the nucleic acid that stores and transmits genetic information from 1 generation to the next

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What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide?

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5 Carbon Sugar
Phosphate group
Nitrogen base

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What is the scientific name for DNA?

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Deoxyribose nucleic acid

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What is the scientific name for RNA?

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Ribose nucleic acid (ribonucleic acid)

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In DNA what pairs with adenine?

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Thymine

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In DNA what pairs with guanine?

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cytosine

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In RNA what pairs with adenine?

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Uracil

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What does the helicase do?

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Unzips the double helix

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Chargaff

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Discovered that adenine pairs with thymine and that guanine pairs with cytosine - in DNA - and that purines have to pair with a pyrimidine

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Purines

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Bigger - adenine & guanine

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Pyrimidine

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Smaller - cytosine & thymine & uracil

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Hemoglobin

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A quaternary molecule

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Lac operon

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Breaks down sugar/metabolism - has to have lactose to turn on gene

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TRP operon

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tryptophan - builds up, synthesizes tryptophan and it stops with tryptophan

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mRNA

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messenger - complementary to DNA - it carries messages from DNA to direct protein synthesis

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rRNA

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ribosomal - associates with protein to form ribosomes

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tRNA

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transfer - transports amino acids to ribosomes

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What holds the nitrogen bases together?

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Hydrogen bonds

22
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What are expressed genes

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exons

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What does DNA polymerase do

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Base pairs - pairs the bases together

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What does DNA ligase do

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It seals the pieces back into a single strand

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Nucleotide

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Building block of DNA & RNA - order determines what will be coded

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Replication

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DNA to make a new strand of DNA

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Transcription

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Process of DNA is transferred to mRNA

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