PBIO Final Flashcards
Three Genomes Present in Plants
Mictochondiral, Chloroplast, and Nuclear
Gregor Medel
Worked with pea plants, single gene inheritance and dihybrid crosses
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Used Drosophila to make discoveries in linkage and crossovers. Along with the distance of genes on chromosomes
Barbara McClintock
Used Maize to discover genetic recombination and transposons
Chromatin
Makes up chromosomes, consists of DNA and proteins
Forward Genetics
Genetic mutant’s phenotype is used to help find the mutant’s genotype
Chiasma
Visual manifestaion of a crossover in chromosomes
Recombination
Happens during meiosis in prophase II
Alleles
One of the different forms of a gene that can exist in a single locus
A/a
Indicates heterozygous allales and that they are on separate homologs
AB/ab
Linked in cis
A/a;B/b
Not linked genes
Meselson and Stahl
Used E.Coli to determine that replication was semi-conservative
Sanger
Came up with Sanger/Dideoxy sequencing
Rich Jorgenson
Cosuppression using petunias
Chargaff’s Rule
A=T and G=C
Kary Mullis
Created PCR
Shine-Dalgarno
Sequence in a prokaryotic organism that says the next AUG in the sequence is to be used to initiate translocation
Okazaki Fragmens
Nucelotide fragments that are created while synthesizing the lagging strand
Taq
Enzyme used in PCR because it is extremely heat resistant
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase
Joins amino acids to their correspnding tRNA
Ubiquitination
Posttranslational modification that marks a protein for degradtion
Release Factors
Bind to stop codons
Operator
Binds to the bacterial repressor proteins
Three Modifications for mRNA
5’ cap is added, introns are sliced and polyadenylation tail
Intron Splicing
Can lead to multiple proteins from one gene
Dideoxy Sequencing
Sequence is primed and put into a tube with dNTPs, ddATP and DNA polymerase. The dNTPs will pair with the template. If ddATP binds in place of dATP the sequence will stop pairing.
Teleomeres
Are shortened everytime it is synthezied. This can lead to cancer (due to rapid divison) and premature aging.
Genomics
Cloning and molecular characterizatoin of entire genomes
Proteomics
Large scale study of proteins in genomes
Bioinformatics
Group of methods that store, organize, and analyze biological data
Contig Assembly
Cut the genome into random fragments, make library of the fragments, sequence each clone, overlap the sequence reads, and overlap the contigs for a continuous sequence
Ordered-Clone Sequencing
Order large-insert clones by overlaping fingerprints to create a physical map, select clones with minimal overlap, divide into subclones, sequence subclones, assemble the subclones to create the sequence
Microarray
Set of DNAs containing all or more genes in a genome depsited on a small chip
Microarray Process
Exposed to two probes, hybridized, uses laser detection to revel the levels of expression
Yeast Two Hybrid Test
Measures protein-protein interactions
Yeast Two Hybrid Test Process
Binds a bait protein and a target protein to restore the use of the GAL4, one protein is spliced next to the binding domain and another to the activation domain. They are then put into the same yeast cell and observed
IS Elements
Segments of bacterial DNA that can move from one position on a chromosome to a different position on the same or different chromosome, interuppting the expression