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1
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What are the purines

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A and G

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What are the pyrimidines

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C and T

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Are purines or pyrimidines wider

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Purines

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DNA strands run (direction)

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Antiparallel

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5
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Where does the replication of chromosomal DNA begin

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Origins of replication

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What is at each end of a replication bubble

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Replication fork

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What untwists the double helix at the replication forks

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Helicases

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What keeps the DNA open in the replication bubble

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Single-strand binding proteins

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What breaks and rejoins dna strands during dna replication before the replication bubble

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Topoisomerase

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How does the Antiparallel arrangement of the double helix affect replication?

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Because of their structure, DNA polymerases can add nucleotides only to the free 3’ end of a primer or growing DNA strand, never to the 5’ end

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DNA strands can only elongate in the direction of

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5’ -> 3’

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12
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What enzyme synthesizes new complementary strands

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DNA polymerase III

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13
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What’s the DNA strand made by DNA polymerase called

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The leading strand

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14
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What strand is synthesized discontinuously

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Lagging strand

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The lagging strand is made of little segments. What are the segments called?

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Okazaki fragments

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16
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Three stages of translation?

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Initiation, elongation, termination

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Initiation begins when…

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Small ribosomal subunit binds to mRNA and charged tRNA binds to start codon on mRNA

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18
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What is the start codon?

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AUG

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What’s the second step of initiation

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Large ribosomal subunit binds to mRNA

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20
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What starts elongation?

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Next tRNA comes to the A site, mRNA is moved through the ribosome and it’s codons are read

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21
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What does all organisms using the same genetic machinery imply?

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THERE IS COMMON ANCESTRY ‼️‼️

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First part of elongation?

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The appropriate anticodon of the next tRNA goes to the A-site

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Second part of elongation

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Peptide bonds are formed that transfer the polypeptide to the A site tRNA

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Third part of elongation

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the tRNA in the A site moves to the P site, the tRNA in the P site goes to the E site. The A site is open for the next tRNA

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What is the A site

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Amino acid site

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What is the P site

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Polypeptide site

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27
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What is the e site

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Exit site

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Where are the three sites?

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On the large ribosomal subunit

29
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What happens in termination

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A stop codon in the mRNA reaches the A site of the ribosome

30
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How does transcription work in retro viruses

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Information flows from RNA to DNA, enzyme used called reverse transcriptase, viral RNA is coupled to DNA, DNA becomes part of RNA

31
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What is gene expression

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The process by which DNA directs the synthesis of proteins

32
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What is transcription

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The synthesis of RNA using information from DNA

33
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Where does transcription occur

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Nucleus

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What is translation

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The synthesis of a polypeptide using information from RNA

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Where does translation occur

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At the ribosome

36
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Functions of tRNA

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They carry amino acids and can attach to mRNA via their anticodon. They allow information to be translated into a peptide sequence

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What is the DNA strand that gets transcribed called

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Template strand

38
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Transcribed mRNA strands are

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Antiparallel and complementary to the DNA nucleotides

39
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What are the mRNA nucleotide triplets are called

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Codons. Codons code for amino acids

40
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For most amino acids, there are multiple codons that can code for them. What is this called?

A

Redundancy

41
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Three steps of transcription

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C Initiation
C Elongation
C Termination

42
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What happens in C Initiation

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RNA polymerase attach to a promoter region of DNA (no primer needed)

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Where are promoter regions (transcription)

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Upstream of the desired gene to transcribe

44
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C Initiation in eukaryotes

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Promoter region is called TATA box, transcription factors help RNA polymerase bind

if DNA can’t unwind, no initiation can happen

45
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C initiation prokaryotes

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RNA polymerase can bind directly to promoter

46
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Why is there a lagging strand

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The strand runs in the 3’ to 5’ direction, but it must be built in the 5’ to 3’ direction. The lagging strand has to wait for a long segment of DNA to become unwound and exposed before replication can start with the addition of a primer

47
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What puts together the Okazaki fragments

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Ligase

48
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What’s mismatch repair

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A protein complex binds to mispaired bases, the mispaired base it cut out with enzymes and replaced by DNA polymerase

49
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What has to happen before dna replication can occur

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Primase has to put RNA primers on the DNA template strand

50
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What’s the role of microRNA (mrRNA) in gene expression

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microRNA helps pick which genes are expressed

51
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How does the process of horizontal/lateral gene transfer lead to genetic diversity

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Organisms can acquire new genetic information from other organisms

52
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What’s transformation?

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when cells can take in DNA that is placed near them, transformation is often used in experiments

53
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What are nucleotides made of

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Nitrogen base, sugar, phosphate group

54
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How many rings do purines have

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2

55
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DNA is made of

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A sugar-phosphate backbone, nucleotides paired with hydrogen bonds

56
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How many bonds between A and T

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2 hydrogen bonds

57
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How many bonds between C and G

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3 hydrogen bonds

58
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Are plasmids part of the prokaryotic cells DNA

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they are distinct from the chromosomal DNA

59
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Which strand is the leading strand

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The one that runs 5 to 3 toward the replication fork

60
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Operons are only in

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Prokaryotes

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Difference between DNA Polymerase I and DNA Polymerase III

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DNA polymerase III does most of the replicating,Polymerase I removes RNA primers

62
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What does telomerase do

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Adds DNA to the ends of chromosomes to keep them from being damaged, it also adds RNA bases to the 3’ end of the DNA strand in replication

63
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RNA primers function

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It attaches to leading strand of DNA and allows DNA polymerase to add new nucleotides to the strand

64
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What’s morphogenesis

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The shaping of an organism by embryological processes of differentiation

65
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What’s DNA sequencing

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Determining the order of the bases that make up the DNA molecule

66
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What’s the 5’ cap on mRNA for

A

It keeps the mRNA from degrading

67
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Where do transcription factors bind

A

Enhancer on rna

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