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1
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What produce endonucleases

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Bacteria

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What do restriction enzymes do

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Recognise and degrade foreign DNA

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3
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Which electrode do DNA fragments travel toward in electrophoresis and why

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Positive as DNA is negatively charged

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4
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What sized fragments travel the furthest

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Small

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What does DNA gel electrophoresis do

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Separate fragment based on size

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6
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How are genes cloned

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Isolate specific gene with restriction enzymes and insert into plasmid vector to place into bacteria to replicate naturally

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7
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What are plasmids

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Small circular DNA

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8
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Give an example of when human genes are cloned

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To make human insulin

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9
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What enzyme concerts mRNA into cDNA

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Reverse transcriptase

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10
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What disease is currently being treated using gene therapy

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Cystic fibrosis

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What enzyme is used in PCR and why

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Taq Polymerase as it can work at higher temperatures

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What is the first step in PCR

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Heat strands to 95 degrees to denature DNA to give single strands

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What is the second step of PCR

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Cool DNA to 55 degrees to allow DNA primers to bind

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What is the final step of PCR

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Heat to 72 degrees to allows taq Polymerase to bind and add nucleotides from the 3’ end.

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15
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Why is PCR used

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Look for mutations, to see if there’s a loss or gain of restriction fragments or to see size of product

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Why can you use PCR to determine if someone has sickle cell anaemia

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In sickle cell the mutation changes a restriction site and so this site will not be cut like it would in normal DNA

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17
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What does PCR result in

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Lots of copies of a specific piece of DNA

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18
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What is protein gel electrophoresis

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Separation of proteins

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19
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What different types of protein electrophoresis are there?

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SDS page, isoelectric focussing and 2D page

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20
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What is SDS page

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When proteins are denatured, given a negative charge and separate due to size as they migrate to the positive electrode

21
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What is 2D page separation

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Separation of proteins based on size and charge

22
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What is isoelectric focussing

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Separation of proteins based on charge. Protein migrate until they reach a pH equal to their pI

23
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What is proteomics

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Protein identification

24
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How do you carry out proteomics

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Digest protein, perform mass spectrometers and identify protein based on peptide sizes

25
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What Techniques uses antibodies instead of DNA hybridisation

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Western blotting

26
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What is ELISA

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A technique to detect protein concentration in a mixture by using antibodies to bind to the protein

27
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What is an enzyme assay

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A technique used to measure enzyme activity by measuring appearance of product or disappearance of substrate

28
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The concentration of which enzyme increases during a heart attack

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Creatine Kinase

29
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What are monoclonal antibodies

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Antibodies that can bind to 1 epitope/protein only

30
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What are polyclonal antibodies

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Antibodies that can bind to multiple epitope in the same antigen

31
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Outline DNA hybridisation

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When a double stranded DNA is heated and denatured and then labelled, complementary markers are allowed to anneal to the single strands.

32
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Outline southern blotting

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Separate DNA using electrophoresis then transfer to membrane, denature and hybridise with fluorescent
probes to visualise DNA fragments

33
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What is northern blotting

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Uses DNA in a method similar to northern blotting but detects RNA so tells you gene expression

34
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What is western blotting

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Using antibodies to visualise proteins

35
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What produces DNA probes

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Oligonucleotide synthesiser

36
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What are ddNTPs

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DNA nucleotides that have 3 phosphate groups and no OH group

37
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What happens when ddNTPs are incorporated into the growing chains

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They stop the chain from growing as the lack of OH stops phosphodiester bonds being made

38
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What technique uses ddNTPs

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DNA sequencing

39
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What can you do with micro arrays

A

Investigate many genes at one time

40
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Outline micro arrays

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You compare gene expression from a healthy and diseased patient by mixing samples with hybridisation probes and look at colour to determine expression

41
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What regions are compared during DNA fingerprinting

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Minisatellites

42
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What are minisatellites

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Non coding regions of DNA

43
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Why are minisatellites compared for DNA profiling

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Everyone has different amount of different minisatellites

44
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What is karyotyping

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Displaying metaphase chromosomes

45
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What is FISH

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Making probe which are specific for a whole chromosome or gene so that these areas can be visualised

46
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What ethical issues are there with investigating the genome

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Potential for terminating babies, can’t identify all mutations, can lead to future personal consequences (e.g with genetic diseases you may or may not have children )

47
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What are reasons for testing someone’s genome

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To diagnose conditions, for prenatal screening for pregnancy decision and to see if someone’s a carrier

48
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What is a primer

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Short section of DNA that acts as a starting point for DNA synthesis as Polymerase binds here

49
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What is reverse transcriptase PCR

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Starting with an mRNA strand, producing the cDNA strand and amplifying it

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