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Structure of Proteins and Cell Division Flashcards

1
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What are the four structures of protein?

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Primary, secondary, tertiary, and quanternery

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What happens in the primary structure?

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Chaining

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What happens in the secondary structure?

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Beta pleat or alpha helix

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What happens in the tertiary structure?

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Disulfide bond, stabilizing bond with protein

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What happens in the quanternery structure?

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Taking tertiary bonds and putting them together

ex. hemoglobin

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What are some characteristics of structural proteins?

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Deal with fibrous proteins
Need to be water insoluble
Sometimes involved in blood clotting

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What are some characteristics of functional proteins?

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“More purposeful”

generally water soluble and have flexible, 3D shape that can change

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What is denaturation?

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Changing the structure and function of the cell (usually by heat)

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What are genes?

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Instructions that are coded in segments of DNA

May have multiple codes

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What are nucleotides?

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Include 5-Carbon sugar, phosphate groups, and nitrogenous bases

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What are the three types of RNA?

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Transfer, messenger, and ribosomal

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Characteristics of chromosomes

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Supercoiled, coiled around histone proteins, connected to centromere

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True or False:

Simatic cells are reproductive sex cells

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FALSE.

Simatic cells are all cells EXCEPT reproductive sex cells

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What is mitosis?

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Replication of identical daughter cell

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What is interphase?

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DNA synthesized, most of the cell life cycle

Has three phases

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What are the phases of interphase?

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G1 (growth), S phase (building of DNA and RNA), G2 (growth)

17
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What is an allele?

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Opposite form of a gene

Ex. Blue eye gene– Brown eye gene

18
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What happens during prophase? (In Mitosis)

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Break down nuclear envelope

Has spindle fibers, just not connected

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What happens during metaphase? (In Mitosis)

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DNA lines up to Metaphase plate

20
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What happens during anaphase?

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Separation of chromatids, connected centromere

21
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What happens during telophase?

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Cytoplasm cutting

22
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What kind of cells go through meiosis?

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Reproductive sex cells

23
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What is a tetrad?

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Pairing up of chromosomes

24
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What is synapsis?

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DNA crossing over

X’s crossing

25
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What does Telophase II end with?

26
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What is the full set of DNA/chromosomes called?

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Diploid number

27
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What is a zygote?

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Two gametes

Ova and spermazoid

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