Unit 5: DNA Replication Flashcards

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What is a Nucleic Acid?

A

marcomolecules that contain genetic information which included DNA and RNA

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2
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What is a nucleotide?

A

monomers that make up nucleic acids (DNA)

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3
Q

What is the name for DNA?

A

deoxyribonucleic acid

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4
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What consists of a nucleotide? (DNA Structure)

A

Phosphate group, Sugar (deoxyribose), nitrogenous base

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5
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What is considered the “backbone” of DNA?

A

Phosphate group and Sugar base

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6
Q

What nitrogenous bases have two rings?

the type! not actual bases

A

Purines

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7
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What nitrogenous bases have a single ring?

the type, not the actual base!!

A

Pyrimidines

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8
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What bases are purines?

A

Adenine and Guanine

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9
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What bases are pyrimidines?

A

Cytosine and Thymine

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10
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What matches with Adenine? How many hydrogen bonds?

A

Thymine and two

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11
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What matches with Cytosine? How many hydrogen bonds?

A

Guanine and three

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12
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Which macromolecule is DNA?

A

nucleic acid

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13
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How many rings do the purine nitrogenous bases have?

A

2

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14
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How many rings do the pyrimidine nitrogenous bases have?

A

1

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15
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What type of bonding occurs between complementary bases in a DNA molecule?

A

hydrogen bond

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16
Q

what type of bonding occurs between sugar and phosphate groups?

A

covalent bond

17
Q

When and where does replication occur?

A

during interphase, in the nucleus of a cell

18
Q

Why does replication occur?

A

If a cell is going to split it will need two copies of DNA to send to each new cell

19
Q

What does semiconservative replication mean?

A

DNA strands separate, serve as templates and produce with one old strand (parent) and one new strand of DNA.

20
Q

What is the “direction” of the molecule?

A

5’ to 3’ direction

21
Q

What is the normal “direction” of ribose sugar?

A

5’ to 3’ direction

22
Q

Do the two strands run in opposite directions?

23
Q

What is the Helicase, what does it do?

A

a enzyme, Breaks/Unzips hydrogen bonds and separates strands of DNA, proteins attached to keep them separated.

24
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What is the DNA polymerase, what does it do?

A

Starts adding nucleotides to each unzipped strand (base pairing rules followed).

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What can a DNA polymerase only do? Which direction?
5' to 3' direction
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What is a "leading strand"?
adds continuous b/c poly can follow it easily. 5’ to 3’ direction
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What is a "lagging strand"?
goes 3’ to 5’ direction, so they have to add lots of primers to continue building b/c helicase keeps opening up
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What does a lagging strand cause?
Okazaki Fragments
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What are Okazaki Fragments?
discontnious base pairing
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What is the primase, what does it do?
lays out primers (flags basically) on the DNA strand which tell the DNA polymerase where to start (signal).
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What is the ligase, what does it do?
The “gluer”, hooks Okazaki Fragments together, hooks two strands together as well.
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What are the rungs of the ladder called?
nitrogenous bases (base pairing)