Week 1 (All) Flashcards

1
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give 4 ways in with cells differ from each other

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size, shape, chemical requirements, and function

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2
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two examples of how cells differ in shape

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  • nerve cells are extended and branched to transmit electrical signals
  • paramecium is shaped like a submarine and covered with cilia, whose coordinated beating sweeps the cell forward
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3
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cell specialisation

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  • in multicellular organisms, division of labour allows for efficiency
  • this does not occur in single celled organisms
  • some cells become so specialised that they cease to proliferate
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4
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what do all living cells share?

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  • a similar basic chemistry; composed of the same sorts of molecules which participate in the same types of chemical reactions
  • genetic information carried in genes
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5
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define a living cell

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a self-replicating collection of catalysts

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6
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viruses and reproduction

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  • do not have ability to reproduce by their own efforts
  • parasitise reproductive machinery of the cells they invade to make copies of themselves
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7
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where have all living cells evolved from?

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the same ancestral cell, which existed between 3.5 and 3.8 billion years ago
- mutation
- sexual reproduction
- natural selection

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8
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3 major domains of the tree of life

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eukaryotes (smallest domain), bacteria, and archaea

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9
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how is the tree of life organised?

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analysis of the genome

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10
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which cells are larger; eukaryotes or prokaryotes? what about their genomes?

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eukaryotic cells, and also have much larger genomes

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11
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most of the earth’s biomass is stored in

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plants

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12
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which domain of life is most diverse and why?

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bacteria
- small
- have been around for longest
- reproduce very quickly (so evolve fast)

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13
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draw and label a bacterial cell

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  • cytoplasm
  • plasma membrane
  • outer membrane
  • cell wall
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14
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which domain is most poorly understood?

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archaea

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15
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describe archaea

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  • differ from bacteria by chemistry of their cell walls, types of lipids that make up the membrane, and range of chemical reactions they can carry out
  • archaea live everywhere, including extreme environments
  • predominant form of life in soil and seawater
  • play a major role in recycling nitrogen and carbon
  • genomes closely related to eukaryotes
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16
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nucleus

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  • information store of cell
  • enclosed in 2 concentric membranes (nuclear envelope)
  • contains molecules of DNA
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17
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mitochondria

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  • enclosed in 2 membranes, with inner membrane invaginated
  • generate chemical energy for the cell via cell respiration
  • harness energy from oxidation of food molecules to produce ATP
  • contain own DNA and reproduce by dividing
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18
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chloroplasts

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  • two surrounding membranes and stacks of membranes containing chlorophyll (green pigment)
  • carry out photosynthesis
  • contain own DNA and reproduce by dividing
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19
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endoplasmic reticulum

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  • irregular maze of interconnected spaces enclosed by a membrane
  • site where most cell-membrane components, as well as materials destined for export from the cell are made
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20
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Golgi apparatus

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  • stacks of flattened, membrane-enclosed sacs
  • modifies and packages molecules made in the ER that are destined to be secreted from the cell or transported to another cell compartment
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21
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lysosomes

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small organelles in which intracellular digestion occurs, releasing nutrients from ingested food particles into the cytosol and breaking down unwanted molecules for recycling within cell or excretion

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22
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peroxisomes

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small, membrane-enclosed vesicles that provide an environment for a variety of reactions in which hydrogen peroxide is used to inactivate toxic molecules

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23
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transport vesicles

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ferry materials between one membrane-enclosed organelle and another

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24
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draw diagram for continual exchange of materials in a cell

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pg 24

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25
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endocytosis

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portions of plasma membrane tuck inward and pinch off to form vesicles that carry material captured from the external medium into the cell

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26
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exocytosis

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vesicles from inside the cell fuse with the plasma membrane and release their contents into the external medium

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27
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cytosol

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concentrated aqueous gel of large and small molecules; site of many chemical reactions

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28
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cytoskeleton

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  • responsible for directed cell movements
  • composed of three major filament types; actin filaments, intermediate filaments, and microtubules
  • role in cell division
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29
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actin filaments

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thinnest filaments; particularly abundant in muscle cells, where they serve as a centre part pf the machinery responsible for muscle contraction

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30
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microtubules

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thickest filaments; form of minute hollow tubes; help pull chromosomes apart during mitosis

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31
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intermediate filaments

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thickness between actin filaments and microtubules; serve to strengthen most animal cells.

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32
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motor proteins

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use energy stored in molecules of ATP to move along cytoskeleton filaments

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33
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protozoans

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free-living, motile, unicellular eukaryotes

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34
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Didinium

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  • large, carnivorous protozoan with a diameter of 150 micrometers
  • uses beating cilia to swim at high speed
  • when it encounters prey (usually another protozoan) it releases numerous small, paralysing darts from its snout
  • attaches to and devours the other cell, inverting like a hollow ball to engulf its victim
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35
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model organisms

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representatives species studied by biologists

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36
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E. coli

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  • small, rod shaped
  • lives harmlessly in the gut of humans and other vertebrates, but will also grow and reproduce in simple lab nutrient broths
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37
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what knowledge has come from studying E.Coli?

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  • how cells regulate gene expression
  • how cells replicate their DNA and how they make proteins from DNA
  • ‘recombinant DNA’ revolution, enabling us to manipulate genes and DNA in the laboratory
  • harnessed as a biological factory for producing large quantities of therapeutic proteins, including insulin
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38
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S. Cervisiae

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  • small, single-celled fungus that is more closely related to animals than plants
  • rigid cell wall, relatively immobile, many organelles (nucleus, GA, ER, mito) but no chloroplasts
  • can grow and divide almost as rapidly as bacteria
  • carries out basic tasks that every eukaryotic cell must perform and can even mate w opposite sex
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39
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what knowledge has come from studying Baker’s yeast?

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  • genetics of sexual reproduction
  • cell division cycle
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40
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arabidopsis thaliana

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  • model plant
  • can be grown indoors in large numbers
  • thousands of offspring within 8-10 weeks
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41
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what knowledge has come from studying arabidopsis thaliana?

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  • understanding of the mechanisms that enable plants to grow toward sunlight, to flower in spring, and to coordinate development with season cycle
  • insights into the development and physiology of crop plants
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42
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C. Elegans

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  • nematode worm
  • develops with clockwork precision from a fertilised egg cell into an adult that has exactly 959 body cells, an unusual degree of regularity for an animal
  • understanding of sequence of events of development
  • understanding of apoptosis (programmed cell death for disposal of surplus cells)
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43
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Drosophila melanogaster

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  • fruit fly
  • study of animal genetics
  • genes for development similar to those of humans; human development and basis of genetic disease
  • genetic analysis provided definitive proof that genes are carried on chromosomes
  • shown how DNA directs development of zygote into adult
  • mutants w body parts used to characterise genes needed to make normal adult
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44
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zebrafish

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  • developmental processes, particularly in vertebrates
  • easily bred and maintained in lab
  • transparent for first 2 weeks of life, allowing observation of how cells behave during development
  • insights into development of heart and blood vessels
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45
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mouse

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  • mammalian genetics, development, immunology, cell biology
  • possible to breed mice with deliberately engineered mutations in any specific gene, or with artificially constructed genes introduced into them
  • test the function of any gene and determine how it works
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46
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why is it that many human cells can be studied in vitro?

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when grown in culture, they continue to display the differentiated properties appropriate to their origin

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47
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organoids

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  • used to study developmental processes
  • certain human embryo cells can be coaxed into differentiating into multiple cell types, which can self-assemble into organ like structures that closely resemble a normal organ
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48
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four types of weak interactions that help bring molecules together in cells

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  • electrostatic attraction: between oppositely charged molecules
  • van der Waals: when two atoms approach each other
  • hydrophobic force: generated by a pushing of non polar surfaces out of the hydrogen-bonded water network, where they would otherwise physically interfere with the highly favourable interactions between water molecules
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49
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application of hydrophobic interaction

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promote molecular interactions in building cell membranes, constructed from lipid molecules with long hydrocarbon tails

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50
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define nucleotides

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nitrogen-containing ring linked to a five-carbon sugar that has a phosphate group attached to it

51
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bases

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under acidic conditions, can bind an H+ and thereby increase the concentration of OH- ions in aqueous solution

52
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pyrimidines

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cytosine, thymine, uracil
derived from a six-membered pyrimidine ring

53
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purines

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guanine and adenine
bear a second, five-membered ring fused to the six-membered ring

54
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base plus sugar (no phosphate group)

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nucleoside

55
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ATP

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adenine, sugar, three phosphates linked in series by two phosphoanhydride bonds
rupture of these bonds releases free energy

56
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structure of nucleic acids

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long polymers in which nucleotide subunits are linked by covalent phosphodiester bonds between the phosphate group of one nucleotide and a hydroxyl group of the next

57
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how are nucleic acid chains synthesised?

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from energy-rich nucleotide triphosphate by a condensation reaction that releases pyrophosphate

58
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distinguish between the roles of DNA and RNA

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  • DNA is more stable due to double helix so acts as a long-term repository for hereditary information
  • RNA serves as more transient carriers of molecular instructions
59
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draw the 5 bases

60
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base/nucleoside names for the 5 bases

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adenine - adenosine
guanine - guanosine
cytosine - cytidine
uracil - uridine
thymine - thymidine

61
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AMP

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adenosine monophosphate

62
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dAMP

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deoxyadenosine monophosphate

63
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UDP

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uridine diphosphate

64
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how are phosphates usually bound sugars?

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joined to the C-5 hydroxyl of the sugar

65
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3 functions of nucleotides and their derivatives

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  • carry chemical energy in their easily hydrolysed phosphoanhydride bonds
  • combine with other groups to form coenzymes
  • used as small intracellular signalling molecules in the cell
66
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between which carbons do phosphodiester bonds take place?

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5’ and 3’ carbon atoms of adjacent sugar rings

67
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3’ end

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ends with OH (hydroxyl)

68
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5’ end

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ends with phosphate

69
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A pairs with

70
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G pairs with

71
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describe the structure of the double helix

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  • strands antiparallel to each other (oriented with opposite polarities)
  • anti-parallel sugar-phosphate sytands twist around each other to forma. double helix containing 10 base pairs per helical turn
72
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why does twisting of the double helix take place?

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renders conformation of DNA’s helical structure energetically favourable

73
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do prokaryotes have cilia?

74
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origins of mitochondria (endosymbiosis) - entangle - engulf - endogenies (E^3) model

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  • archaean cell was anaerobic
  • bacterial ectosymbiont was aerobic
  • surface protrusions on archaea expanded over time
  • this led to enclosure of ectosymbiont by archaeal membrane fusion
  • escape of endosymbiont into cytosol and formation of new intracellular compartments
  • over time, this evolved into modern-day mitochondria
75
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did prokaryotes or eukaryotes form first?

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prokaryotes formed much earlier, and then eukaryotes

76
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what is an alternative model for endosymbiosis?

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some models are more predatory, where the aerobic bacterium is engulfed via a process similar to phagocytosis

77
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common features of both types of endosymbiosis models

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  • ancient anaerobic archaeal cell
  • ancient aerobic bacterium
  • over evolutionary time, a symbiotic relationship
78
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Asgard cell

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  • type of archaea belonging to the group Asgard
  • has a cell body and protrusions with ectosymbionts on their surface
79
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describe and draw the sequence of the tree of life

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ancestral prokaryote (3.5-3.8b years ago)
bacteria and archaea separated
1b years later, the first single-celled eukaryote was formed

80
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lines of evidence to support endosymbiont hypothesis

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  1. mitochondria and chloroplasts still have remnants of their own genomes, which are circular. their genetic systems resemble that of modern-day prokaryotes
  2. mitochondria and chloroplasts have kept some of their own protein and DNA synthesis components and these resemble prokaryotes too. they have their own ribosomes and multiply by pinching in half — the same process used by bacteria. are also sensitive to similar antibiotics.
  3. membranes in mitochondria and chloroplasts often similar to those in prokaryotes and appear to have been detached from engulfed bacterial ancestor.
81
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general attributes of model organisms

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  • rapid development with short life cycles
  • small adult (reproductive) size
  • readily available (collections or wide-spread)
  • tractability - ease of manipulation or modification
  • understandable genetics
82
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central dogma of molecular biology

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DNA -(transcription)-> RNA -(translation)-> protein

83
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tRNA

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  • transports amino acids
  • protein synthesis
84
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rRNA - ribosomal RNA

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  • part of the ribosome
  • does catalytic work of making protein by creating peptide bonds
  • has a structural role as part of RNA
85
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refined central dogma

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not all RNA is translated into protein - it has many other uses

86
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draw a diagram for the elaborated central dogma information flow

87
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genome

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cell’s complete set of DNA, including mitochondria and chloroplasts

88
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transcriptome

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all the RNA in a particular cell at a particular point in time

89
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genome vs transcriptome/proteome

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transcriptome/proteome are much more dynamic

90
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proteome

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entire set of proteins in a cell at a particular point in time

91
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how are the proteome and transcriptome related?

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the proteome feeds information into the transcriptome

92
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interactome

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set of all protein-protein interactions taking place in a cell at a single point in time

93
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metabolome

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full set of small molecules that can be found in a cell at a certain point in time (anything that is generally smaller than a protein, like ATP, sugars, vitamins, some hormones)

94
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example of metabolome affecting transcription

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lac operon

95
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phenome

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comprised of everything (all the -omes), and together with the observable characteristics of what you’re looking at (cell, organ, etc)

96
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describe the directionality of transcription and translation

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  • DNA, RNA, and proteins are synthesised as linear chains of information with a definite polarity
  • info in RNA sequence is translated into an amino acid sequence via a genetic code which is essentially universal among all species
97
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what are nucleic acids?

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an organism’s blueprints - the genetic material in a cell
- DNA: deoxyribonucleic acid
- RNA: ribonucleic acid

98
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three parts of a nucleotide

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  1. pentose sugar - scaffold for base
  2. nitrogenous base
  3. phosphate group - backbone. There may be 1 (mono), 2 (di), or 3 (tri) phosphate groups
99
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pyrimidines

A

UC The pyramids?
- single ring
- uracil
- cytosine
- thymine

100
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purines

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pure Animals Gobble
- double ring
- adenine
- guanine

101
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where is the base attached?

102
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distinguish between ribose and deoxyribose in terms of functional groups

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2’ carbon in ribose has a hydroxyl group - in deoxyribose it just has a hydrogen

103
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nucleoside monophosphate

104
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nucleoside vs nucleotide

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nucleoside = base + sugar
nucleotide = base + sugar + phosphate

105
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adenosine

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sugar + adenine

106
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guanosine

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sugar + guanine

107
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cytidine

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sugar + cytosine

108
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uridine

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sugar + uracil

109
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thymidine

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sugar + thymine

110
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nucleoside monophosphate

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sugar + base + 1P

111
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nucleoside diphosphate

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sugar + base + 2P

112
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nucleoside triphosphate

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sugar + base + 3P

113
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dNTPs

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deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates
- DNA is synthesised from them
- N stands for A, C, T, G

114
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NTPs

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  • N stands for A, C, U, G
  • ribonucleoside triphosphates
  • RNA is synthesised from them
115
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nucleotides are linked by

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phosphodiester bonds

116
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overall charge on nucleic acids

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negative all the way along

117
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interactions between individual molecules are usually mediated by

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noncovalent attractions:
1. electrostatic attractions (happen within and between large molecules) - weakened by water
2. hydrogen bonds - strongest in a straight line
3. van der Waals attractions - two atoms very close together, causing temporary dipole due to uneven distribution of electrons. not weakened by water
4. hydrophobic force - water pushing non-polar things away from itself. individually weak, but add up.

individually, very weak forces - BUT can sum to generate strong binding between molecules

118
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Cell theory

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  • the cell is the basic organisational unit of life
  • all organisms are comprised of 1 or more cells
  • cells arise from pre-existing cells: the ability to reproduce is characteristic of living matter, which must be able to duplicate DNA, create proteins, etc
119
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prokaryotic

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  • no nuclei
  • single celled (but communities may exist)
  • bacteria and archaea (domains)
120
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eukaryotic

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  • nuclei with membrane
  • single-celled (eg algae) or multicellular
  • plants, fungi, animals, humans, protozoans
121
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describe and draw a prokaryotic cell

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  • no membrane-bound organelles; localised DNA may be in nucleoid or not localised at all
  • smaller size than eukaryotes (~1micrometer)
  • less DNA than eukaryotes
122
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draw and describe a eukaryotic cell (plant)

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  • nucleus
  • several membrane-bound organelles
  • larger size and more complex (~5micrometers)
123
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draw and label a eukaryotic cell (animals)

124
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what is the need for cytoskeletons in eukaryotic cells

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simple diffusion is not enough to guide transport9