UNIT 3.1: THE CELL + CENTRAL DOGMA Flashcards
3 basic components of a nucletodie
Nitrogenous base
Pentose sugar
Phosphate group
Adenine and Guanine are __
Purine bases
Thymine and Cytosine are __
Pyrimidine bases
Pentose sugar + Nitrogen base
Nucleoside
Phosphate group + Pentose sugar + Nitrogen base
Nucleotide
Demonstrated how the 3 components are physically assembled to form DNA
Watson and Crick
DNA is like a twisted ladder with chemical bonds as it runs
Double helix model
Nucleotides are joined to form a ___
Polynucleotide chains
Covalent bond that links adjacent nucleotides
Phosphodiester bond
5’ is the ___ group of the new nucleotide and is linked to the free 3’ __ group of the existing nucleotide
Phosphate
OH
Having opposite orientations
Antiparallel
Important for the attachment of DNA binding proteins involved in replication and transcription
Major and minor grooves
Enumerate the central dogma
Replication
Transcription
Translation
Important in duplicating the DNA so that there will be sister chromatids at anaphase stage at the end of cytokinesis
Replication
DNA replication is ___ because each separated strand serve as template for the synthesis of a complementary strand
Semiconservative
Major steps of replication
Initiation
Elongation
Termination
Unwinding of the double stranded DNA
Initiation
DNA synthesis
Elongation
Rewinding of the double helix
Termination
Unwinds the two DNA strands at the replication fork
Helicase
Stabilize ssDNA as it forms so it will not anneal to reform the double helix
Single-strand DNA binding proteins (SSB)
Releases the tension ahead of the replication fork caused by the unwinding of the DNA helix
DNA Gyrase
The DNA Gyrase releases a the tension and causes a ____ supercoil
positive
The replication bubble is more common on ___ (eukaryote or prokaryote) because their DNA is ___
Prokaryote
Circular
The SSB stabilizes the ssDNA at the ___
Replication fork
Short fragments produced during the discontinuous synthesis
Okazaki fragments
The process by which an RNA sequence is formed from a DNA template
Transcription
Used for RNA synthesis and serves as the template
Template strand
The template strand is also known as ___
Antisense strand
Has the same sequence as the RNA produced, with exception of U replacing T
Coding strand
The non-template strand
Coding strand
The coding strand is also known as ___
Sense strand
Type of RNA produced by the transcription process
mRNA
The RNA polymerase enzyme that binds to a promoter site on the DNA
RNA polymerase II
Pulls a portion of the DNA strands apart from each other and exposes unattached DNA bases during the transcription
RNA polymerase
The RNA sequence is synthesized in ___ direction
5’ to 3’